Soap

runnerpaul · 07-20-2007, 04:50 AM

Anybody know anything about SOAP? Is it an alternative to HTTP POST or would you use them together? Is SOAP secure or has it any inbuilt security features?

acid_kewpie · 07-20-2007, 05:17 AM

soap is a convention to exchange data using xml normally over http. in relation to http posts, you would do an http post to pass a block of XML data, which forms a soap object to a server, so it's essentially 2 levels above an http post (that's not osi layers of course...)

bigearsbilly · 07-20-2007, 05:41 AM

yes I know a bit.
it's an http POST basically,
looks a bit like this:

Code:

POST /webservice/cascade HTTP/1.1
Host: wls.primala.vipa.bt.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 223

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
   <getUPIPrice>
          <UPI>UPI:207655:E:2</UPI>
   </getUPIPrice>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

runnerpaul · 07-20-2007, 06:07 AM

POST bit go into the xml file too or do you code it into your program? Know I sound a bit thick on it but its all new to me.

bigearsbilly · 07-20-2007, 06:11 AM

http://code.google.com/apis/soapsear...#searchrequest
look here google do some webservices for you.

I just create a header and envelope and use netcat to suirt it at google
I got example stuff at home which I can't use over the network here

the google envelope is below

I believe the url is
http://api.google.com/search/beta2
port 80

here's a google search envelope

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <ns1:doGoogleSearch xmlns:ns1="urn:GoogleSearch" 
         SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
      <key xsi:type="xsd:string">00000000000000000000000000000000</key>
      <q xsi:type="xsd:string">shrdlu winograd maclisp teletype</q>
      <start xsi:type="xsd:int">0</start>
      <maxResults xsi:type="xsd:int">10</maxResults>
      <filter xsi:type="xsd:boolean">true</filter>
      <restrict xsi:type="xsd:string"></restrict>
      <safeSearch xsi:type="xsd:boolean">false</safeSearch>
      <lr xsi:type="xsd:string"></lr>
      <ie xsi:type="xsd:string">latin1</ie>
      <oe xsi:type="xsd:string">latin1</oe>
    </ns1:doGoogleSearch>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

acid_kewpie · 07-20-2007, 06:11 AM

post is part of the http protocol. to http soap is just it's payload, just a bunch of characters.