Making .NET remotable applications available over internet???

Question

I thought if you used the SOAP formatter in a .NET remoting application then that application could be invoked from say a web browser through the URL. In Visual Studio -> Help -> Search -> "Choosing communication options in .NET" it says under "ASP.NET or Remoting?" -> "3. Interoperation" that ".NET remoting is optimised for communication with .NET clients, although you can interoperate between different operating systems using a remote application." I would have thought that would mean you could use the URL in the browser to display results from the invocation of the .NET server application if those were returned as SOAP format. I used the sample code from "Building a basic .NET remoting application", tested it, then put into configuration file for client and server the SOAP formater to replace the default binary formater, tested it from client, works fine. Now plug the URL into the Internet Explorer and you get told there is an error as there is no message to de-serialise. Hmmmm. So how do non-.NET platform clients access URLs that link to .NET remoting servers??? Anyone know???