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I have a Web Service that I need to call through R. The Web Service demands data in a particular format. Below are the details for the Web Service that I received from the IT department and this is the closest forum I could find related to my problem. But the answer given in the link is too cryptic for a novice like me. I have already tried playing with the given code without any success.

Web Service Details

The below XML is what needs to be sent through R. 

<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:sch="http://www.xxxxx.com/xxxxservice/schema">
   <S:Header/>
   <S:Body>
      <sch:OwnerOnlyInquiryRequest>
         <sch:RequestHeader>
            <sch:ClientSystem>CESE</sch:ClientSystem>
         </sch:RequestHeader>
         <sch:RequestParameterList>
            <sch:RequestParam>8905899</sch:RequestParam>
         </sch:RequestParameterList>
         <sch:RequestType>CESEID</sch:RequestType>
         <sch:PeckingOrder>Pricing</sch:PeckingOrder>
         <sch:ViewType>Pricing</sch:ViewType>
      </sch:OwnerOnlyInquiryRequest>
   </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

All I know is that it should be a POST request. And some other details are

With the post information:

POST http://slsesotdevtcl1.ute.xxxx.com:10149/xxx/xxxservice.wsdl HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Length: 637
Host: slsesotdevtcl1.ute.xxxxx.com:10149
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

I could find many forums where the question surrounds on how to read/parse the xml response received in R. I am struggling a step behind this, since I first need to figure out how to send the request. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Abhee Brahmnalkar
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  • See [pages 30-31](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/httr/httr.pdf) of the `httr` package for how to use POST. – Kamil Dec 13 '17 at 19:09
  • It does not tell me anything about XML. In encoding, I believe there needs to be an option for XML? I am not sure. – Abhee Brahmnalkar Dec 13 '17 at 19:38
  • @hrbrmstr. You are right! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26717706/soap-request-in-r give s the solution I was looking for. Many many thanks! – Abhee Brahmnalkar Dec 13 '17 at 20:23

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