The STOW-RS Service Application receives STOW requests from a remote AE. These requests are HTTP POST requests. It is associated with the local real-world activity "Store Instances". It converts these requests into internal functions to store the given SOP Instances. It returns a summary HTTP status line, including a status code and an associated textual phase, followed by an XML message indicating success, warning, or failure for each instance to the requesting remote AE.
The reception of a STOW-RS POST request will activate the STOW-RS Service. The storage request is based upon the accept headers in the STOW-RS POST request. The response includes an HTTP status line, including a status-code and its associated textual phrase, followed by an XML message indicating success, warning, or failure for each instance stored by the STOW-RS service.