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Part 3

How SOAP works

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Listing 1: An example SOAP/HTTP request with XML content

POST /soap/servlet/rpcrouter HTTP/1.0
Host: localhost:8070
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Length: 461
SOAPAction: ""

<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:getRate xmlns:ns1="urn:demo1:exchange" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
 <country1 xsi:type="xsd:string">USA</country1>
 <country2 xsi:type="xsd:string">japan</country2>
 </ns1:getRate>
 </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

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