RFC 3288 (rfc3288) - Page 2 of 20


Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)



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RFC 3288                   Using SOAP in BEEP                  June 2002


Table of Contents

   1.    Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.    BEEP Profile Identification  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.1   Profile Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   3.    SOAP Message Packages  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   4.    SOAP Message Patterns  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   4.1   One-way Message  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   4.2   Request-Response Exchange  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   4.3   Request/N-Responses Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   5.    URL Schemes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   5.1   The soap.beep URL Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   5.1.1 Resolving IP/TCP Address Information . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   5.2   The soap.beeps URL Scheme  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   6.    Registration Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   6.1   SOAP Profile Feature Registration Template . . . . . . . . . 12
   7.    Initial Registrations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   7.1   Registration: The SOAP Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   7.2   Registration: The soap.beep URL Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   7.3   Registration: The soap.beeps URL Scheme  . . . . . . . . . . 15
   7.4   Registration: The System (Well-Known) TCP port number for
         SOAP over BEEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   8.    Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
         References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
         IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
         Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
         Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
         Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20























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