searching "HTTP over SOAP" finds a few leads: Tim Bray, 2004, "HTTP over SOAP!?!?!?": https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/01/SRRH https://www.tbray

searching "HTTP over SOAP" finds a few leads: Tim Bray, 2004, "HTTP over SOAP!?!?!?": https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/01/SRRH https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/01/SRRH Erik Wilde, 2008, "HTTP over SOAP over HTTP": https://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2008/11/http-over-soap-over-http.html https://dret.typepad.com/dretblog/2008/11/http-over-soap-ove... William Vambenepe, 2008, "WS Resource Access working group starting at W3C": http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/436 http://stage.vambenepe.com/archives/436 Here are some of the specs: Web Services Transfer (WS-Transfer). This specification describes a general SOAP-based protocol for accessing XML representations of Web service-based resources. https://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Transfer/ https://www.w3.org/Submission/WS-Transfer/ Web Services Resource Transfer (WS-RT). This specification defines extensions to WS-Transfer. While its initial design focuses on management resource access its use is not necessarily limited to those situations. https://www.w3.org/Submission/WSRT/ https://www.w3.org/Submission/WSRT/