How to do a SOAP wsdl web services call from the command line

Here is another sample CURL - SOAP (WSDL) request for bank swift codes

Request

curl -X POST http://www.thomas-bayer.com/axis2/services/BLZService \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/xml' \
  -H 'SOAPAction: blz:getBank' \
  -d '
  <soapenv:Envelope 
    xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
    xmlns:blz="http://thomas-bayer.com/blz/">
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
      <blz:getBank>
        <blz:blz>10020200</blz:blz>
      </blz:getBank>
    </soapenv:Body>
  </soapenv:Envelope>'

Response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
< Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
< Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:14:59 GMT
< Content-Length: 395
< 
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<soapenv:Envelope
  xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <ns1:getBankResponse
      xmlns:ns1="http://thomas-bayer.com/blz/">
      <ns1:details>
        <ns1:bezeichnung>BHF-BANK</ns1:bezeichnung>
        <ns1:bic>BHFBDEFF100</ns1:bic>
        <ns1:ort>Berlin</ns1:ort>
        <ns1:plz>10117</ns1:plz>
      </ns1:details>
    </ns1:getBankResponse>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

On linux command line, you can simply execute:

curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" -H "SOAPAction:"  -d @your_soap_request.xml -X POST https://ws.paymentech.net/PaymentechGateway

It's a standard, ordinary SOAP web service. SSH has nothing to do here. I just called it with curl (one-liner):

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
    -H 'SOAPAction: "http://api.eyeblaster.com/IAuthenticationService/ClientLogin"' \
    --data-binary @request.xml \
    https://sandbox.mediamind.com/Eyeblaster.MediaMind.API/V2/AuthenticationService.svc

Where request.xml file has the following contents:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:api="http://api.eyeblaster.com/">
           <soapenv:Header/>
           <soapenv:Body>
              <api:ClientLogin>
                 <api:username>user</api:username>
                 <api:password>password</api:password>
                 <api:applicationKey>key</api:applicationKey>
              </api:ClientLogin>
          </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I get this beautiful 500:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Body>
    <s:Fault>
      <faultcode>s:Security.Authentication.UserPassIncorrect</faultcode>
      <faultstring xml:lang="en-US">The username, password or application key is incorrect.</faultstring>
    </s:Fault>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Have you tried soapui?

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