What should be HTTP status code of response containing SOAP Fault (codes are defined in RFC 2616 HTTP/1.1 Section 10)?
From SOAP 1.1 Specification:
In case of a SOAP error while processing the request, the SOAP HTTP server MUST issue an HTTP 500 “Internal Server Error” response and include a SOAP message in the response containing a SOAP Fault element (see section 4.4) indicating the SOAP processing error.
What if there is no SOAP error while processing/SOAP processing error? It is just some standard business error (customer not found for example)?
From WS-I Basic profile:
An INSTANCE MUST use a “500 Internal Server Error” HTTP status code if the response message is a SOAP Fault.
This is much more clear.
So at least there are some links to answer when somebody asks again for Faults delivered with 200 OK status…
