Curl - Send Webservice Request thru Linux terminal

Below is step by step to test request and response on webservice.

Create a request01.xml in server.
Example command : cat > request01.xml

and then paste your xml.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:NSS="http://tempuri.org/MyService">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <NSS:retrieveDataReq>
         <AgencyCode>123456</AgencyCode>
         <BranchCode>MyBranch011</BranchCode>
         <RequestDateTime>2016-01-18T14:35:00</RequestDateTime>
      </NSS:retrieveDataReq>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Ctrl + c to exit the cat command.

Use below curl command to send the request.

curl --header "Content-Type: application/soap+xml;charset=UTF-8" --data @request01.xml http://192.168.1.20:82/webserviceName?wsdl

The response will show in terminal with the raw XML. this curl is use for test the request and response on webservice.