Hi!
If you receive a
SOAP fault, then that means that your SOAP request reached at least an intermediary. If you have no intermediaries, then it reached the server and was processed by the server. The SOAP 1.1 specification says this about the Server fault code:
The Server class of errors indicate that the message could not be processed for reasons not directly attributable to the contents of the message itself but rather to the processing of the message. For example, processing could include communicating with an upstream processor, which didn't respond. The message may succeed at a later point in time. See also section 4.4 for a description of the SOAP Fault detail sub-element.
Translated, this means that your server blew up when processing the request due to some internal error.
See this link for more details:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/#_Toc478383507
Best wishes!