Although SOAP 1.1 did not indicate directly that HTTP/1.1 must be supported, it sort of indirectly did by the examples and the HTTP specification in the reference:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/#_Toc478383526
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/#_Toc478383536
Scott Nichol wrote:
The Apache SOAP client always uses HTTP 1.0, never HTTP 1.1. If you need HTTP 1.1 support, you would either need to write your own transport or move to another implementation like Axis.
