Part of the SOAP website. Updated: 4/1/98; 10:26:54 AM.

SOAP: Example 2

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>commentx</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: 435
Content-Type: text/xml
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:47:52 GMT

<?XML VERSION="1.0"?>
<methodResponse>
	<fault>
		<struct>
			<data>
				<member>
					<name>errorString</name>
					<value>
						<string>Can't evaluate the expression because the name "comments" hasn't been defined.</string>
						</value>
					</member>
				<member>
					<name>errorNum</name>
					<value>
						<int>4</int>
						</value>
					</member>
				</data>
			</struct>
		</fault>
	</methodResponse>

CGI interface

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