how do you send a SOAP request?

Question

I am new to SOAP and xml. I read a number of tutorials but nothing seems to be clear enough.

I am abit confused, Just how does one send an SOAP request? The way I have t

Answer 1

This blog post helped me. Python SOAP Request using Requests

#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

import requests
from XML import XML

request = u"""
              
                  
                  
                      
                          GBP
                          CHF
                      
                  
              """

encoded_request = request.encode('utf-8')

headers = {"Host": "www.webservicex.net",
           "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=UTF-8",
           "Content-Length": len(encoded_request)}

response = requests.post(url="http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx",
                         headers = headers,
                         data = encoded_request,
                         verify=False)

print unicode(XML(response.text))