Filtering SOAP Messages

The Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) applies advanced XML Web service protocols to SOAP messages. Much of the WSE functionality is encapsulated in a set of filters contained in the incoming and outgoing pipelines that connect clients of Web services and the servers that host them. These filters are used in conjunction with the SoapContext class to pass information to and from user code. Filters are applied to an entire SOAP message and have the ability to modify the SOAP message. WSE includes a standard set of input and output filters and also allows users to remove these filters or to create and add their own custom filters.

In This Section

• Filters Included with WSE
  Provides a list of filters included with WSE and describes how they can be used.

• Creating Custom Filters with WSE
  Provides a brief explanation of how filters are created in WSE.

• How to: Create and Add a Custom Output Filter
  Details how to use WSE to create a filter to add information to an outgoing SOAP message.

• How to: Create and Add a Custom Input Filter
  Details how to use WSE to create a filter to process data from an incoming SOAP message.