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11:53 AM

Hi guys

Can someone help me curl command

I hope so. What are you looking for help with? Are you running curl and it is not behaving as you expect?

So I am trying to make a SOAP request

to an endpoint

and

I get this

What are you getting?

12:12 PM

$ curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --header "SOAPAction:urn: methodName" --data @request.xml example.com/abcd

curl: (7) couldn't connect to host

But my code written in Java can connect to host

and perform opereatiosn

@AbhishekSingh You forgot http:// in the URL?

https://

is there

instead of http

Ah, it wasn't marked-up properly so it just didn't show.

Yes

So I am confused if anything else is required

So the command you have is:

curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --header "SOAPAction:urn: methodName" --data @request.xml example.com/abcd

(Indenting four spaces renders it as code here in chat.)

12:21 PM

yes

12:42 PM

Can you show the Java code that does work?

@AbhishekSingh In SOAPAction:urn: methodName, is urn literally the text urn, or is it something else?

1:10 PM

What does urn signify ?

I just followed a tutorial

which had urn in it

Uniform Resource Name But I think what you wrote probably is correct. The URN syntax does have that in it.

Did you follow the same tutorial for the Java code?

Since the Java code works and the curl command doesn't, inspecting each might be helpful.

I expected your curl command to look more like this but I don't know if that's necessary or not.

Videonauth

1:59 PM

@AbhishekSingh I cant reproduce the error you get, simply copying your initial line from the chat history and trying it on my machine gave me this:

┌─[03:52:59]─[michael@NEXUS-ONE]
└──> ~ $ curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --header "SOAPAction:urn: methodName" --data @request.xml example.com/abcd
Warning: Couldn't read data from file "request.xml", this makes an empty POST.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

maybe check your network settings?

2:16 PM

@Videonauth I really doubt that the real URL contains example.com as that's a domain reserved for use in examples: iana.org/domains/reserved

Videonauth

@Kusalananda I know but the line worked and curl did not return "Host not reachable" so the line itself is not wrong, and its something else causing problems here. This is what i wanted to point out.