I'm actually using a C# application to send Web requests directly to the API url.
The following is my test code.
//////////////////////// code sample /////////////////////
// build the soap request
string soapRequest = BuildRequest(postData);
/***** POST DATA NOW LOOKS LIKE THIS
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<axl>
<request xsi:type="ISgetGlobal"><ISgetGlobal></ISgetGlobal></request>
</axl>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
*****/
// convert the request into a byte array
UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
byte[] postBytes = encoding.GetBytes(soapRequest);
// grab the CME url and user credentials from configuration
string ciscoUrl = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["CiscoExpressServerAddress"];
string ciscoUsername = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["CiscoLogon"];
string ciscoPassword = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["CiscoPassword"];
// create the request object
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(string.Format("http://{0}/ios_xml_app/cme", ciscoUrl));
// set the username and password that is valid for this CME server
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ciscoUsername, ciscoPassword);
// setup the request
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
request.ContentType = "text/xml";
// send the request to the CME server
Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
dataStream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length);
dataStream.Close();
// get the response
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
// convert the response into a string to send back to the caller
StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
string str = reader.ReadLine();
while (str != null)
{
result.AppendLine(str);
str = reader.ReadLine();
}
return result.ToString();
