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FTP Output Task Properties (Page 139)
Send Email Output Task Properties (Page 140)
SOAP Client Task Properties (Page 143)
Delete Output Task Properties (Page 145)
7.1.6 SOAP Client Task Properties
SOAP Client tasks can be used as input, output and action tasks, although their basic function is to generate
output. SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) is a light protocol that defines a standard XML format used to
communicate among systems across different architectures, languages, and operating systems.
A SOAP request is an XML-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) sent using the HTTP transport protocol. The
payload of the SOAP packet is an XML document that specifies the call being made and the parameters being
passed.
Web services, a SOAP class of applications, expose their services via the Internet in a manner that lets other
applications access them, as well as use and combine them as required.
In order to access and successfully use Web services, client applications must know how to get them, what
operations they support, what parameters they expect, as well as what they return. SOAP servers make this
information available via WSDL (Web Service Description Language) files.
To configure a given SOAP Client task in the PlanetPress Watch/Server Configuration program, you must first
get its WSDL file (note that you cannot download the WSDL file over an HTTPS connection, so you should use
an HTTP connection to get the file and then switch back to a secure connection). This lets you know which
services the SOAP server provides, as well as each service’s methods and namespaces.
If firewalls control communication between the SOAP client and the Web servers, they must be configured so
as not to block client-server communication.
In the case of "string" type data, SOAP Client tasks normalize all line endings to a single line feed character.
The following describes the properties specific to SOAP Client tasks. For information on those properties
shared by various types of tasks, such as Other and On error properties, refer to Configurations, Processes
and Tasks.
SOAP Client task properties are as follows:
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