Send a custom header of soap envelope using jQuery Ajax

Question

I am trying to call an asmx service using jQuery Ajax.

POST /YderWS.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost
Content-Type: text/         


        

Answer 1

jQuery.ajax() issues generic HTTP requests for any type of "web service", not just .NET web services. You'll want to add a SOAPAction request header and pass the entire SOAP envelope as POST data:

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: servicename + "/" + functionName,
    contentType: 'text/xml; charset=utf-8',
    headers: {
        SOAPAction: 'http://scandihealth.com/iwebservices/HentKommuner'
    },
    data: 'stringstringstring',
    success: successFn,
    error: errorFn
});

If you're using jQuery < 1.5, you'll need to use beforeSend to set the SOAPAction request header.

You can find the documentation for jQuery.ajax() at http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/.