Hi kalindiberad,
Thank you for posting here.
For your question, Web services use the standard web protocols HTTP, XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI.
For more details about each of them, you could refer to the link in code project for reference.
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/17908/What-is-Web-Service
Best Regards,
Wendy
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