OSB: Context variable changes for 'Reply' action

HI,
What are the differences between changes done by OSB to any of the context variables(body, inbound, outbound etc) when Reply with Success is used and Reply with failure is used.
I have a Proxy service A consuming another proxy service B by RouteTo.
When B has Reply with Success, A gets the response and fault does not get the generated within A.
But when B has Reply with Error, fault gets generated within A.
In both the cases,response xml that B is sending is same. So, what is that which makes fault generation within A. How would A know that fault is to be generated.
Please help in understanding.
TIA.
Edited by: Ashish Rane on Dec 21, 2012 6:01 AM

A Reply action will always return the content of $body variable as it is. The different between Reply with Success and Reply with failure lies in the content of transport headers being returned. In case of HTTP Service, if you do a reply with success, the calling service/application will received HTTP status code 200 or 0, which is a success status code for HTTP. In case of Reply with Failure, calling service/application will receive HTTP status code 500, which will enable the error handling in calling service/application to trigger. The best practice for SOAP based services is to always replace content of $body with a SOAP Fault when doing a Reply With Failure so that the calling application received details of fault (otherwise it just gets transport status code for failure but content of reply will still be original content of $body which might not indicate what the error was)

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