Well, it looks like I need to put on some special SOAP headers to 
successfully talk to the web service.

       *** If this is true, do I have to construct those soap headers by
       **** hand ?   Or is there a javascript library I can use to
       **** do it more conveniently ?

If I have to do it by hand, do the following errors help you help me 
figure out what I'm doing wrong ?


If I do basically what you show below, the xml I get back looks like 
this if I don't put in any SOAP headers:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
             <soapenv:Body>
                         <soapenv:Fault> 
<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
<faultstring>org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag: 
TEST_REQUEST</faultstring>
                                     <detail/>
                         </soapenv:Fault>
             </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

If I put in a header equivalent to the one that was used for delivering 
that error message to me, I get this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
             <soapenv:Body>
                         <soapenv:Fault> 
<faultcode>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode>
<faultstring>org.xml.sax.SAXException: SimpleDeserializer encountered a 
child element, which is NOT expected, in something it was trying to 
deserialize.</faultstring>
                                     <detail/>
                         </soapenv:Fault>
             </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>


Any ideas about this ?????

Thanks.  /Eric

> Hi...Here's an example of using Microsoft's implimentation XMLHTTP.
> You'll want to do a lot more reading up about it...consider going down
> to your local full-service bookstore, or looking for a text on line, or
> <gasp/> googling for more info...but this will get you started:
> 
> var XMLHTTP  = new ActiveXObject( 'Msxml2.XMLHTTP' );
> 
> var XMLRequest = new ActiveXObject( 'Msxml2.DOMDocument' );
> var XMLResponse;
> 
> var method = 'POST';
> var async = false;
> 
> // TODO:  Change the string in the next line to whatever xml you need to
> send...
> var xmlString ='<root><content>Here is some text</content></root>';
> 
> // TODO:  Change the next line to the web address of the server you are
> // trying to get information from
> var url  = 'http://localhost/server.asp';
> 
> var bSuccessfullyLoaded = XMLRequest.loadXML( xmlString);
> 
> if( bSuccessfullyLoaded )
> {
>  debugger;
>  XMLHTTP.Open( method, url, async );
>  XMLHTTP.Send( xmlString );
>  XMLResponse = XMLHTTP.responseXML;
> 
>  if( 0 == XMLResponse.parseError.errorCode )
>  {
>   // TODO:  Do something useful here once you
>   // successfully get a response...
>   window.alert( XMLResponse.xml );
>  }
>  else
> {
>     // TODO:  Handle the parsing error here
>     window.alert('A Parse Error');
>  }
> }
> 
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> --Geoff McGrath
> 
>