Question

I have a web service that I created in C# and a test harness that was provided by my client. Unfortunately my web service doesn't seem to be parsing the objects created by the test harness. I believe the problem lies with serializing the soap packet.

Using TCPTrace I was able to get the soap packet passed to the web service but only on a remote machine so I can't debug it there. Is there a way of calling my local webservice with the soap packet generated rather than my current test harness where I manually create objects and call the web service through a web reference?

[edit] The machine that I got the soap packet was on a vm so I can't link it to my machine. I suppose I'm looking for a tool that I can paste the soap packet into and it will in turn call my web service

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Solution

A somewhat manual process would be to use the Poster add-in for Firefox. There is also a java utility called SoapUI that has some discovery based automated templates that you can then modify and run against your service.

OTHER TIPS

By default, .Net will not allow you to connect a packet analyzer like TCPTrace or Fiddler (which I prefer) to localhost or 127.0.0.1 connections (for reasons that I forget now..)

Best way would be to reference your web services via a full IP address or FQDN where possible. That will allow you to trace the calls in the tool of your choice.

Same as palehorse, use soapUI or directly the specific component for that feature: TCPMon.

Just did this the other day with TCPTrace on the local machine. I mapped the remote host in the hosts file to 127.0.0.1. Ran the local web server on 8080, TcpTrace on 80 pointing to 127.0.0.1:8080. Probably your issue is trying to run both at port 80 which won't work.

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