Soap server request examples
Hi
I am after some examples for using the soap interface. The docos only talk about using libraries to interface to the soap server. I have an application that can make web service soap calls and wish to use this to call the soap server.
Has anyone any examples that show required header info soapaction and xml request and responses .
Regards
Stephen
Soap server request examples
Fabulous! That's great news, Stephen. Please just let us know if we can help with anything further.
Kind regards,
Todd
Soap server request examples
Thanks Todd for your suggestion
Once I understood the protocol myself I was able to get it working.
Your support is great. The product is great we have been able to extract data from an organisation's web pages that we subscribe to. They are about two years away from constructing their own webservices so the need for using your application. They also mentioned that their other customers have previously tried to scrape the data but with little luck. I will tell them about your product.
Regards
Stephen
Soap server request examples
Hi Stephen,
Offhand, I'm not completely sure what those XML files would look like. I guess this may be a disadvantage to using libraries to handle all of the requests and responses :) That is, the raw XML is abstracted away. Here are a few thoughts and ideas that may help:
- We use a library called Axis (here) to handle the SOAP interaction. It's very standards compliant, so, assuming you're sending a valid request, you should get some kind of intelligible response back. I have to confess that I'm not that familiar with the details of the SOAP protocol, so I'm not sure what might be missing in the request your making.
- You might consider putting a proxy server in between your client and screen-scraper so that you can capture the actual XML traveling between the two. I'm guessing you could even use our own proxy server for that.
- Along with the previous suggestion, you might try compiling and running either the Java or .NET examples we provide, then watching the XML that they send across, given that we know both of them work.
Hopefully this gets the ball rolling for you. Feel free to post a reply, if not.
Kind regards,
Todd
Soap server request examples
Todd
Thanks but I am not using .net or java classes as suggested.
I want to send a request straight to the soap server via our existing soap client that is I need to construct the actual xml file to send and will in return receive an xml file back. So what I rally need is some examples of the actual xml request along with the xml header if required and the soapaction if required
Regards
Stephen
Soap server request examples
Hi Stephen,
From our main SOAP documentation page (here) we link to examples in Java (here) and .NET (here). Just let us know if you'd like to see more details.
Thanks,
Todd Wilson