Calling a web service from Unix using Curl

Problem:

Create a request message:

echo "<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:chec=\"http://xmlns.oracle.com/MOUS/HealthCheck/CheckBPEL\">" > /tmp/request.xml 

echo "   <soapenv:Header/>"  >> /tmp/request.xml 

echo "   <soapenv:Body>"     >> /tmp/request.xml 

echo "      <chec:process/>" >> /tmp/request.xml 

echo "   </soapenv:Body>"    >> /tmp/request.xml 

echo "</soapenv:Envelope>"   >> /tmp/request.xml

Invoke the web service using curl:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -H "SOAPAction: \"http://soadev:8001/soa-infra/services/default/HealthCheck/checkbpel_client_ep\"" --data-binary @/tmp/request.xml http://soadev:8001/soa-infra/services/default/HealthCheck/checkbpel_client_ep?WSDL > /tmp/response.xml

View the contents of the response:

cat /tmp/response.xml