SOAP and WSDL

• SOAP and WSDL
  • Resources
  • Tools
  • Tips and Tricks
    • Commonly used headers (for curl)
    • Examples

Resources

• https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_wsdl.asp
• https://www.tutorialworks.com/wsdl/

Tools

• Useful tools SoapUI

Tips and Tricks

• On servers running Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services, which is also SOAP based, you see a message like this:

    <p class="heading1">Service</p>
    <p>Endpoint not found.</p>
  

Commonly used headers (for curl)

• -H "Content-Type: application/soap+xml"
• -H 'Content-Type: text/xml'
• -H 'SOAPAction: service:getSomething'

Examples

• Download WSDL spec

  curl -o service.wsdl https://site/dir/service?wsdl
  

• Grep schemaLocation to get the XSD file locations to check if they are present ```sh $ grep schemaLocation service.wsdl

* download the XSD-Files:

curl -o service.xsd https://site/dir/service?xsd=service.xsd

* cURL SOAP request

curl -X POST http://site/dir/service
-H ‘Content-Type: text/xml’
-H ‘SOAPAction: service:getSomething’
-d ‘

10020200 </blz:getSomething> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>' ``` * Authentication example ```xml test pass 5 ```