Help constructing SOAP Request manually

[Wendy Smoak <We...@asu.edu>]

I have a simple web service running under Axis, and now I'm trying to
construct the HTTP POST request manually to communicate with it.  The
database we use (IBM's UniData) has a "CallHTTP" function that I need to
learn how to use in order to transfer data to a third party via SOAP/HTTP.

So far, I've built the <soap:Envelope> and <soap:Body> tags and have a
string of text I would like to send to the webserver at
http://my.host/axis/EmailTest.jws.

I'm ready to add the XML to the HTTP Request, but I don't know what
parameter name to use.  Do I use the 'message' name (getEmailRequest) or the
'portType' name (EmailTest)?

I'm currently experimenting and constantly getting:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>                        
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmln
s:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSc
hema-instance">

 <soapenv:Body>

  <soapenv:Fault>

   <faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>

   <faultstring>org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in
prolog.
</faultstring>

   <detail>

    <ns1:stackTrace
xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">org.xml.sax.SAXParse
Exception: Content is not allowed in prolog.

        at
org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.j
ava:1189)           

Thanks for any hints!  I haven't learned how to read the WSDL document yet.

-- 
Wendy Smoak
Applications Systems Analyst, Sr.
Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management