.NET Log Soap Request on Client

Question

I\'m consuming a third party .NET WebService in my client application. For debugging purposes I want to capture the SOAP requests that are being sent from my server. How w

Answer 1

There are many options you can use. There are certainly some commercial tools for this (like SOAPScope), but if you're just looking to capture the raw contents of the requests/responses there are several tools out there besides Fiddler (that Walden mentioned already).

Personally, I've been a long time user of Simon Fell's TcpTrace and YATT.

If you're interested in actually instrumenting the code so that it can do it on its own (say, by logging everything to a file or something), then you might want to look into implementing a SoapExtension on your server.