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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services.

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How can I pass the string “Null” through WSDL (SOAP) from AS3 to ColdFusion web service without receiving a “missing parameter error”?

We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup application when his last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received (thanks ...
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How to call SOAP web service in Android

I am having a lot of trouble finding good information on how to call a standard SOAP/WSDL web service with Android. All I've been able to find are either very convoluted documents and references to ...
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Representational state transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Can somebody explain what is REST and what is SOAP in plain english? And how Web Services work?
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REST / SOAP endpoints for a WCF service

I have a WCF service and I want to expose it as both a RESTfull service and as a SOAP service. Anyone has done something like this before?
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SOAP or REST for Web Services?

Is REST a better approach to doing Web Services or is SOAP? Or are they different tools for different problems? Or is it a nuanced issue - that is, is one slightly better in certain arenas than ...
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What's the best SOAP client library for Python, and where is the documentation for it? [closed]

I've never used SOAP before and I'm sort of new to Python. I'm doing this to get myself acquainted with both technologies. I've installed SOAPlib and I've tried to read their Client documentation, ...
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How to access SOAP services from iPhone

I'm planning to develop an app for the iPhone and that app would have to access a couple of SOAP services. While doing some basic checking in the iPhone SDK I was not able to find any support for ...
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SOAP server and client application VCL+indy demo for Delphi XE?

Delphi used to include a demos folder for web Services, but no longer seems to include this. I just tried the Delphi 7 demo projects (SOAPDMServerWAD, a server with almost no UI at all, and ...
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Should a Netflix or Twitter-style web service use REST or SOAP? [closed]

I've implemented two REST services: Twitter and Netflix. Both times, I struggled to find the use and logic involved in the decision to expose these services as REST instead of SOAP. I hope somebody ...
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Secure Web Services: REST over HTTPS vs SOAP + WS-Security. Which is better?

I'm not a security expert by any means, but I favor creating REST-style web services. In creating a new service which needs to have the data it transmits secure. We've entered a debate over which ...
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Simplest SOAP example using Javascript

What is the simplest SOAP example using Javascript? To be as useful as possible, the answer should: Be functional (in other words actually work) Send at least one parameter that can be set ...
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PHP SOAP tutorial? [closed]

I need to write a SOAP client using PHP 5.3. The WSDL for the service is reasonably complicated. I can't find a PHP SOAP tutorial anywhere that walks through how to do this - I haven't found any that ...
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How can I consume a WSDL (SOAP) web service in Python?

I want to use a WSDL SOAP based web service in Python. I have looked at the Dive Into Python code but the SOAPpy module does not work under Python 2.5. I have tried using suds which works partly, but ...
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What's the best way to use SOAP with Ruby?

A client of mine has asked me to integrate a 3rd party API into their Rails app. The only problem is that the API uses SOAP. Ruby has basically dropped SOAP in favor of REST. They provide a Java ...
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REST API - why use PUT DELETE POST GET?

So -i was looking through some articles on creating REST API's. And some of them suggest using all types of HTTP requests: like PUT DELETE POST GET. So - we would create for example index.php and ...

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