I’ve been using several tools to debug SOAP on Mac and Windows. I would like to share my experience in using some of the tools and show some examples. So far I found four major categories of tools that are useful in debugging SOAP: Interface listeners such as tcpdump and others Proxy tools such as TCPMonitor Servlet filters Application server logging. For example, Weblogic has a special logging option that dumps SOAP requests and responses to the sever log. All of these tools have their own advantages and disadvantages. In this article, I will describe the first type - an interface listener tool called tcpdump. I am planning to describe other three categories in the future posts. The tcpdump is a tool that sniffs IP traffic and dumps it to a file or a standard output stream. It was originally developed by Van Jacobson, Craig Leres and Steven McCanne from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA. It is open source. The tcpdump documentation...
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