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Need to View SOAP Messages Between Client and Web Service

I have written a Web service using VS2005 and deployed it to a Web server and
it is running using HTTPS. We have a person who is writing a desktop
application using a non-Microsoft development tool. He is generating the
requests manually and is having some difficulties. I have a Windows test
harness application, also written with VS2005, that makes calls to the
service without any problems. Is there a way to capture the request messages
so that I can show him from live examples how to format the messages. He has
the WSDL but is still having problems.

Thank you,
Eagle
Mar 28 '08 #1
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<Ea************ ************@di scussions.micro soft.comwrote in
news:E9******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com:
The issue here is that the person who is writing a client to my
service is not using such a tool and is having difficulty. I hope
someone can provide a tip or a reference that explains how to view
SOAP messages in VS2005 Web services.
Out of curiousity, what tool is the developer using?

Since your developer is not using web services - why do you insist on using
a SOAP interface? Could you not front-end the SOAP interface with an
ASP.NET page for the developer? That would remove hide all the complexity
of SOAP and provide the developer with a simple HTTP POST protocol to work
with?

If your developer isn't willing to use a tool that supports web services,
it's not worth your effort to cram it down his throat (it'll probably come
back to haunt you...) :-)

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sp**********@ro gers.com (Do not e-mail)
Mar 30 '08 #2
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<Ea************ ************@di scussions.micro soft.comwrote in
news:6D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com:
Providing a Web page front end is not an option since the calls are
being made in RPC fashion from a desktop application that is making
similar calls to other Web services. In other words, we are locked
into providing a Web service interface. The developer seems to want
do (or is being required to do) things in a more difficult fashion.
I am not privy to quite a few things on his end. I was directed to
write a Web service.
By web page front end, I do not mean a graphical webpage, but one that
accepts an automated XML post. In essence it is a "web service" that
does not use SOAP but rather a MUCH more simplier (custom) protocol.

So:

Client -XML HTTP Post to ASP.NET Page -Web Service -Back End

Serveral online services use this concept: SMS Gateways, PayPal, Google
API, Facebook API, etc.
I will look into TCP trace. I have already tried Ethereal sniffing
but I could not find what I was looking for in the output dispite
taking the certificate off the hosting virtual directory.
Oh I forgot, take a look at Fiddler2 as well.

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sp**********@ro gers.com (Do not e-mail)
Mar 30 '08 #3
SoapUI or WebService Studio.
Mar 30 '08 #4

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