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 application sending a request to a service application; an act of the client network transport forwarding the request from the computer system to a server computer system via an outbound communication medium, the service application being located at the server computer system; an act of the client network transport receiving a response from the server computer system via an inbound communication medium, the response responsive to the request, the response including application data and protocol specific status renderings, the protocol specific status renderings including status indicators for a plurality of different protocol layers used by the inbound communication medium to communicate the response from the server computer system to the computer system; an act of the client status processor synthesizing a single status response from the protocol specific status renderings, the single status response indicating an error condition with respect to the processing of the request at the server computer system; and an act of the client status processor automatically performing one or more remedial actions to compensate for the error condition subsequent to synthesizing the single status response so as to reduce further manually entered actions at the client application.