Interview Question - How to handle SOAP Based and REST based Exceptions

Question

Can some one provide a very specific and to the point answer for this question ?

Answer 1

I think the basics of it are, with REST you should return the proper http response code and enough information for the client to correct the error, e.g. 404 if the resource can't be found, 400 if they client sent a bad request, 500 if the server generated an exception, etc. With SOAP it looks like you always have to return a 500 Response code and a special SOAP message that says exactly what the error was (according to the SOAP spec).

Here is a blog post comparing the two.