Part of the SOAP website. Updated: 4/5/98; 6:03:14 AM.

SOAP: Example 1

Here's a simple SOAP request

POST /soap HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Frontier/5.0.1 (WinNT)
Host: betty.userland.com
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-length: 493

<?XML VERSION="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
	<methodName>signGuestbook</methodName>
	<params>
		<param>
			<name>comments</name>
			<value>My name is Dave Winer and I'm testing Betty from UserLand Software. It's 3/25/98; 2:40:38 PM here right now.</value>
			</param>
		<param>
			<name>mail</name>
			<value>dave@scripting.com</value>
			</param>
		<param>
			<name>url</name>
			<value>http://www.scripting.com/frontier5/xml/plan.html</value>
			</param>
		</params>
	</methodCall>

Here's the response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 161
Content-Type: text/xml
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:43:40 GMT

<?XML VERSION="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
	<params>
		<param>
			<value>
				<boolean>1</boolean>
				</value>
			</param>
		</params>
	</methodResponse>

CGI interface

This application is on the air now. You can view the guest book registry via a CGI interface.