I recently needed to confirm the request values that were being generated by a webservice client that I just developed.

I had to find a tool to intercept the request being submitted.

I came across this awesome, easy to use tool which I used to grab the xml request that was being submitted to a web service.

tcpTrace (http://www.tcptrace.org/).

Install tcpTrace.exe and configure the port and server as follows:

Listen on Port# : 81

Destination Server : <your server>

Destination Port : <your destination servers port>

<soap:address location=”http://localhost:81/<rest of the url>“/>

In your wsdl replace the server and port with the tcpTrace localhost address (ie.localhost:81).

Run your program, and tcpTrace will output the xml request.

This is ideal for webservices that don’t return the actual request.