Hello lucius,

As John has suggested, you can post the webservice request message as plain
XML text. Generally, all the webservice method calls are serialized as XML
soap message that be transferred over wire(http or tcp channel), therefore,
if the soap message is not quite complex which can be constructed
manually(through XML api), you can directly use network component to send
such XML soap message. In .net framework, the httpwebrequest class is a
encapsulated one for send http request. Here are some articles & thread
discussing on send text data through httpwebrequest.

http://www.netomatix.com/Development/XmlWebRequest.aspx

http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread427794.html

Here is a simple test code fragment that use httpwebrequest to send
webservice request
================
static void TestWebMethod()
       {
           HttpWebRequest req =
WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:3697/MainService/simpleservice.asmx")
as HttpWebRequest;

           req.ContentType = "application/soap+xml";
           req.Method = "POST";

           StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(),
Encoding.UTF8);

           StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"..\..\soap_template.xml",
Encoding.UTF8);
           string soap = sr.ReadToEnd();
           sr.Close();

           sw.Write(soap);

           sw.Close();

           HttpWebResponse rep = req.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;

           sr = new StreamReader(rep.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);

           Console.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd());

           sr.Close();
           
       }
=========================

=======soap_template.xml=====
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
 <soap12:Body>
   <HelloWorld xmlns="http://tempuri.org/" />
 </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>
=====================

also, for .net framework 2.0, the coupled WSE is version 3.0, you can also
use its SoapSender to send soap message.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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