"Simon Hart" <srhartone@[no spam]yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have any good recommendations where to download a SOAP monitor
> program. I want to be able to monitor SOAP requests in a production
> environment.
>
> Cheers
> Simon.
>

"Glenn" <glennitunes@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Simon Hart" <srhartone@[no spam]yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:e7z%23wlgNGHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone have any good recommendations where to download a SOAP
>> monitor program. I want to be able to monitor SOAP requests in a
>> production environment.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Simon.
>>
>
> Simon
>
> If you want it cheap then in that past I've used Ethereal to get hold of
> network traffic including SOAP messages. Altova do some tools, but at a
> price. Also there's the soon to be desupported SOAP Toolkit...
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C943C0DD-CEEC-4088-9753-86F052EC8450&displaylang=en
>
> The best way we've found is to derive from the SoapExtension class. This
> way you can capture the stream at at various stages of serialisation and
> write it out. It's probably not what you're after right now considering
> the apps live and all, but maybe something to think about in the future.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwebservicesprotocolssoapextensionclasstopic.asp
>
> http://hyperthink.net/blog/CommentView,guid,eafeef67-c240-44cc-8550-974f5d378a8f.aspx
>
> HTH
>
> Glenn
>