<story><title>Please drop the SOAP</title><url>http://thecoffman.com/2011/01/please-drop-the-soap/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rst</author><text>One of the things in life I really regret is suggesting SOAP on a project.  I thought it was just a packaged, somewhat elaborated version of a semi-reasonable XML-RPC type thing --- and worse, that the idea that it was standardized meant that you could count on some kind of half-decent interoperability.&lt;p&gt;It was initially sold that way, but that was just the first of a parade of sales pitches, hilariously chronicled here, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-...&lt;/a&gt; --- endlessly shifting as if seen through a fun-house mirror.</text></comment>
<story><title>Please drop the SOAP</title><url>http://thecoffman.com/2011/01/please-drop-the-soap/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>asmithmd1</author><text>SOAP is a nightmare.&lt;p&gt;soapUI is an application that will let you fiddle around until you get the calls right.&lt;p&gt;I recently did exactly this.  I wound up not only generating the SOAP envelope by hand but also the HTTP headers:&lt;p&gt;SOAPAction: &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://...//SubmitDataform&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://...//SubmitDataform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What is the action I am trying to do doing in the HTTP headers?</text></comment>