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1.4 Relationship to Other Protocols

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The protocol uses secure Groove SOAP for formatting requests and responses. It transmits these messages using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or the Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS) protocols. Groove SOAP is the wire format used for messaging, and HTTP or HTTPS are the underlying transport protocols. A management domain's public key or an account configuration code or an agreed upon secret key is used for encrypting and signing and integrity protecting the payload content.

The following diagram illustrates the transport stack that the protocol uses:

This protocol in relation to other protocols

Figure 3: This protocol in relation to other protocols