SOAP 1.1 Request and Response of GetSpeech

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This section provides a tutorial example on how to use SocketRequestResponse.pl to send a SOAP 1.1 request for the GetSpeech Web service provided by www.xmlme.com. The response of GetSpeech received looks very nice.

In the previous tutorial, I discovered a code bug in my socket test program, SocketRequestResponse.pl. The bug is that the request file is opened in non-binary mode and the read() functions converts \r\n to \n resulting less bytes used in the SOAP request message.

I modified SocketRequestResponse.pl to open the request file in binary mode:

#- SocketRequestResponseBinary.pl
#- Copyright (c) 2009 by Dr. Herong Yang, herongyang.com
#- All rights reserved
#
   use Socket;
   ($host, $port, $in, $out) =  @ARGV;

#- Reading the request
   open(IN, "< $in");
   binmode(IN);
   read(IN, $req, (-s $in));
   close(IN);

#- Connecting
   socket(SOCK,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,getprotobyname('tcp'));
   connect(SOCK, sockaddr_in($port, inet_aton($host)));
   select(SOCK); $| = 1; select(STDOUT);

#- Sending the request
   print SOCK $req;

#- Receiving the response
   open(OUT, "> $out");
   while ($line=<SOCK>) {
      print OUT $line;
   }
   close(OUT);

#- Closing connection
   close(SOCK);
   exit;

Here is the test result after fixing the bug:

\herong>SocketRequestResponseBinary.pl www.xmlme.com 80 
   soap_1_1_GetSpeech.req soap_1_1.res
   
\herong>type soap_1_1.res
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: ... 2009
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1942

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Body>
    <GetSpeechResponse xmlns="http://xmlme.com/WebServices">
      <GetSpeechResult>
        &lt;SPEECH&gt;&lt;PLAY&gt;HAMLET&lt;/PLAY&gt;
        &lt;SPEAKER&gt;HAMLET&lt;/SPEAKER&gt;To be, or not to be: 
        that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to
        ...&lt;/SPEECH&gt;
      </GetSpeechResult>
    </GetSpeechResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Cool. My first SOAP 1.1 test with SocketRequestResponseBinary.pl worked nicely. Some notes on the SOAP response:

• www.xmlme.com is running Microsoft IIS 6.0 as the Web server.
• The GetSpeech Web service returns result in the GetSpeechResult element of the SOAP response XML message.
• The result itself is an XML message with < and > replaced as escape sequences.
• The SOAP response message received as a single line without any line breaks. I reformatted it before inludeding it here.

Last update: 2009.

Sections in This Chapter

SocketRequestResponse.pl - Socket Level Testing Program

Examples of HTTP 1.0 Requests and Responses

Examples of HTTP 1.1 Requests and Responses

SOAP 1.1 Request - Content-Length Too Small

SOAP 1.1 Request - Content-Length Too Large

SOAP 1.1 Request and Response of GetSpeech

SOAP 1.2 Request and Response of GetSpeech