For long-term reasons (it's a large multi-year project) and to provide more comfort for our customer (internal monitoring) and the communication from us (the development team) to the external entities (internal/external consumers of the webservice), we decided to improve the debugging capabilities of the SOAP service.

They give a code example of how to use this extension functionality. The script is set to make a request to a remote server and store all of the response information in an easy to use standardized error handling functionality.