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A "web service" is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over the World Wide Web.

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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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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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Restful API service

I'm looking to make a service which I can use to make calls to a web based rest api. I've spent a couple of days looking through stackoverflow.com, reading books and looking at articles whilst ...
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maximum length of HTTP GET request?

What's the maximum length of an HTTP GET request? Is there a response error defined that the server can/should return if it receives a GET request exceeds this length? update: as indicated in the ...
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Recommendations of Python REST (web services) framework? [closed]

Is there a list somewhere of recommendations of different Python-based REST frameworks for use on the serverside to write your own RESTful APIs? Preferably with pros and cons. Please feel free to add ...
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How do I build a JSON object to send to an AJAX WebService?

After trying to format my JSON data by hand in javascript and failing miserably, I realized there's probably a better way. Here's what the code for the web service method and relevant classes looks ...
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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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Web service - current time zone for a city?

Is there a web service of some sort (or any other way) to pull a current time zone settings for a (US) city. For the parts of the country that don't follow the Daylight Saving Time and basically jump ...
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jQuery Call to WebService returns “No Transport” error

I have the following web service; [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld() { return "Hello World"; } It's stock standard with no alterations to the class decorators. I have ...
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jqgrid Page 1 of x pager

I am trying to figure out how to user the paging functionality of the jqGrid. Currently I am stuck on Page 1 of 4. No matter if I press the Next button or not. It just stays on 1. I am using ...
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Best Framework for PHP and creation of RESTful based web services [closed]

I'm looking to create a RESTful or pseudo-Restful based web service on a PHP/MySql stack. I'm wondering what some of the frameworks you suggest I look at? I've been looking at Zend with Zend_Rest, ...
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Consume WCF Web Service using Objective-C on iPhone

I am having a hard time consuming a very simple (Hello World) WCF web service in my iPhone app. From what I have read, you must manually create the request message then send it to the web service ...
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Create WCF service for unmanaged C++ clients

I need to get unmanaged Windows C++ clients to talk to a WCF service. C++ clients could be running on Win2000 and later. I have a control over both WCF service and which C++ API is being used. Since ...
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How to call a local web service from an Android mobile application

From the past few days, I have been working on an Android code to call a local web service. I am using ksoap libraries for Android to call my SOAP web service created in .NET. However, I feel there is ...
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Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and authentication

I am (as a follow-up to this question) looking for a way to wrap APIs around default functions in my PHP-based web applications, databases and CMSs. I have looked around and found several "skeleton" ...

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