Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/20/39 11:36

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 17:18:54 -0600, "Ron Eggler" <test@example.com>
wrote:

>I'm supposed to send following request as a html-request(from a html-link)
>is it possible?

No, you need to do it in a rather more sophisticated way than just
coding it into HTML. Try reading the book "AJAX in Action" as a good
guide to the state-of-the-art in client-side SOAP techniques. It's a
good book, AJAX is worth learning, and most of the older SOAP textbooks
are too much about the server side and not about the client.

You might also find a very old downloadable article on MSDN by Aaron(?)
Skonnard which had a useful little SOAP client and demonstration coded
in a simple HTML page using the XMLHTTP component. It's pretty old, but
it was a useful example of code you can re-cycle.

AJAX techniques will generally be more cross-browser portable than MS'
pure-IE solutions, but you're still looking at some fairly hairy code.


I forget why, but it's actually _impossible_ to send any valid SOAP
request from a simple browser address bar - there's a required header
which won't be included. Trivial to add when you're coding to some sort
of HTTP component, but it locks out the plain "browsers".

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