>>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/MSDN-FILES/027/001/468/msdncompositedoc.xml
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>Yes, if you choose so. proxycfg allows you to set otherwise but the simpler setup would be to adjust it to "system (=IE) settings".
>No. The idea of choosing HTTP as means of transport of XML messages is that HTTP ports are, in general, open to traffic.

I am testing this out. I ran proxcfg -U
This is supposed to extract and use my IE proxy settings. It appeared to do so, but I still can't make it through the firewall. Do I know have to get my firewall admin to make changes at his end. He has never changed a setting for me in the 7 years I've made such requests. This is not looking good.

I am disappointed in SOAP at this point. I thought "firewall-friendly" meant that the client acted like a browser and just passed text (XML) back and forth. This does not seem to be completely the case. Arg.