describing a webservice

[tascien]

When I build a .Net Webservice and I browse to:
http://localhost/ws/s.asmx

I get a nice page with a list of operation that are supported in my
webservice. When I browse to:
http://localhost/ws/s.asmx?WSDL
I get a nasty XML file that is not human readable (If you want to say
that!!!)

Even better, when I browse to:
http://localhost/ws/s.asmx?op=HelloWorld
I get a page that has an example of the soap message that i should be
sending to the server...

Now, I want to be able to describe a web service in this way, but I
don't have access to that server. I just want to look at their WSDL,
and come up with a nice page of functions, parameters, and message
format to send like the one at
http://localhost/ws/s.asmx?op=HelloWorld.

What xml elements should I be looking at to create a nice page like
that? I tried to check the source code of s.asmx, but nothing is in
there!

Please let me know if you understand what I want to do, and if you have
any suggestion...

Tascien

 

[John Timney \( MVP \)]

DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx is the page that you see when you browse an
asmx file. So you need to start by understanding how that does what it
does.

Take a read of this for some pointers.
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/040609.htm

 

[tascien]

Great. I've looked at that file, I am able to easly extract the
operations...

but i can't get the parameters and soap post examples like you get when
you do
?op=HelloWorld
the code there is a little cumbersome. Any pointers?