HTTP SOAP\GET\POST

Question

I created my first web service 2 days ago in VS 2008 and was thinking about consuming it when I came across the following questions about web services:

1) My web ser

Answer 1

Standard SOAP services are using only HTTP POST because they require complex SOAP request (XML) which cannot be included in query string.

When you want to make call to your SOAP service from web page, your page must built valid SOAP request. Because of that, SOAP calls are usually created from auto-generated service clients on server side.

We can call it HTTP-SOAP because it is a SOAP request transported by the HTTP protocol with POST method.

It doesn't take precedence. It is how SOAP services usually work. If you want to use HTTP GET and HTTP POST you should check REST services.