.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

I wrote a post about this a while ago titled "Logging SOAP Messages in .NET".

The easiest way is to use the tools already provided with .NET.

1. Extend the class SoapExtension.

2. override the method ProcessMessage to get a full output of your Soap Request, then output this information to a text file or event log.

public class SoapMessageLogger : SoapExtension
{
  //…
  public override void ProcessMessage(SoapMessage message)
  {
    switch(message.Stage)
    {
      case SoapMessageStage.BeforeDeserialize:
        LogResponse(message);
        break;
      case SoapMessageStage.AfterSerialize:
        LogResponse(message);
        break;
      // Do nothing on other states
      case SoapMessageStage.AfterDeserialize:
      case SoapMessageStage.BeforeSerialize:
      default:
        break;
    }
  }
  //…
}