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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 plugin task in the PReS Workflow 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 name spaces.
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 plugin tasks normalize all line endings to a
single line feed character.
Task properties
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WSDL address: Enter the URL address of the WSDL file, or choose a previously
selected address from the drop-down list.
Note
The WSDL Address of a PReS Workflow SOAP server is the following:
http://127.0.0.1:8080/wsdl/isoapact (assuming you are on the same machine
and did not change the default HTTP port).
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