WCF Soap Actions in HTTP header or SOAP header?

Question

I\'m a little confused about how SOAPAction is implemented in WCF (and other web service frameworks for that matter).

In a test client, I have a Client Message Inspe

Answer 1

Putting SOAP action in an HTTP header is part of SOA specification, and WCF just implements SOAP specification in this case.

Read here: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/#_Toc478383528