response headers for “http://wbv-oal-t0001/Outage_Communicator/getOutageCommunicatorServiceStatus.asmx” (RelFrameId=1, Internal ID=1)
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error\r\n

Can you please help me if I am missing anything in the script.

web_add_header(”Content-Type”,”text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1″);

web_add_header(”SOAPAction”,”http://wbv-oal-t0001/Outage_Communicator/getOutageCommunicatorServiceStatus\”");
web_custom_request(”getOutageCommunicatorServiceStatus”,
“URL=http://wbv-oal-t0001/Outage_Communicator/getOutageCommunicatorServiceStatus.asmx”,
“Method=POST”,
“TargetFrame=”,
“Resource=0″,
“Referer=”,
“Body=\r\n”
” \r\n”
” \r\n”
” \r\n”
” \r\n”
” 01\r\n”
” \r\n”
” 0101\r\n”
” \r\n”
” \r\n”
“”,
LAST);

Thanks,
Radan

If you are wanting to develop your own web service, then you will need a web server with a server-side scripting language like PHP or C#. Once you know what language/platform you are using, it should be easy to find a tutorial on creating web services.

Using someone else’s web service is the easiest way to go if you just want to practice creating LoadRunner/VuGen scripts though…

Cheers,
Stuart.

What are the criteria for designing a web page to host XML/SOAP requests?

If the above approach is not correct, can you please guide me with the right information from scratch- how to use web_custom_requests i.e post web services via http/html?

Thanks much in advance.

I am happy to have a look at your script if you send it to me.

Cheers,
Stuart.

I have a query regarding a mixed approach taken by project. It is a mixed approach of WebMethods and HTTP Post method.

Project is using WebMethods for integration. But it is not using SOAP or WSDL. It is just exposing method. A .NET client is using MSXML2.XMLHTTP40 object to send data (XML) using HTTP POST method.

I have to emulate similar. I tried code to submit data using web_custom_request and web_submit_data. I can login fine using web_set_user. But i receive HTML status code – 403 when code moves to submit request.

Following is a web_custom_request call: (do note that I have changed certain parameters)

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web_custom_request("http://WebMethodServer:1000/invoke/ClassName.ClassName.receive/FunctionName", 
    "Method=POST",
    "URL=http://wmdevis:6223/invoke/GDTCostarCommon.CostarMPS.receive/mpsDataUpload",
    "Mode=HTML",
    "EncType=text/xml; charset=utf-8",
    "Body=<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>DATA",
    LAST);

Would you please be able to help.

Regards,
Jigar

[Stuart's Reply: To handle a web service that requires authentication, you need to put a call to the web_set_user() function at the top of your script.

Note that if the username you are authenticating with is on a domain, you may have to include the domain in the username field. e.g. web_set_user("domain\\username", "password", "www.example.com:443"). ]