>>From what I can tell, both of these are transfer protocols. How are they different? Why use one over the other? There is almost so much information available that I'm having a hard time sifting through it all to get to the basics.
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>Completely different animals. TCP/IP if a transport protocol; SOAP belongs in a much higher layer. Typically you'd use a SOAP->HTTP->TCP/IP stack..
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>Regards,
>Viv

Ok, sorta makes sense. If you had to drop a quick definition on these with regards to their relationship to each other, what would it be?

SOAP:
HTTP:
TCT/IP: