1. At a computer system including one or more processors and system memory, the computer system also including a client application, a client network transport, and a client status processor, a method for taking action to attempt to satisfy a client request, the method comprising: an act of the client network transport forwarding a client application request to another computer system via an outbound communication medium; an act of the client network transport receiving a corresponding response from the other computer system via an inbound communication medium, the response including application data and protocol specific status renderings, the protocol specific status renderings including status indicators indicating an event condition related to processing the request at the other computer system, the protocol specific status renderings formulated from assertions expressed in a protocol independent status, the expressed assertions representing other status information for the event condition in addition to the protocol specific status renderings; an act of the client status processor synthesizing a single status response from the protocol specific status renderings, the single status response indicating one or more remedial actions to compensate for the event condition based on the other status information from the expressed assertions; and an act of the client status processor automatically performing the one or more remedial actions to compensate for the event condition so as to reduce further manually entered actions at the client application.