Android, sending XML via HTTP POST (SOAP)

1. First, you can create a String template for this SOAP request and substitute user-supplied values at runtime in this template to create a valid request.
2. Wrap this string in a StringEntity and set its content type as text/xml
3. Set this entity in the SOAP request.

Something like:

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(SERVICE_EPR);          StringEntity se = new StringEntity(SOAPRequestXML,HTTP.UTF_8);se.setContentType("text/xml");  httppost.setHeader("Content-Type","application/soap+xml;charset=UTF-8");httppost.setEntity(se);  HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();BasicHttpResponse httpResponse =     (BasicHttpResponse) httpclient.execute(httppost);response.put("HTTPStatus",httpResponse.getStatusLine().toString());

here the alternative to send soap msg.

public String setSoapMsg(String targetURL, String urlParameters){        URL url;        HttpURLConnection connection = null;          try {          //Create connection          url = new URL(targetURL);         // for not trusted site (https)         // _FakeX509TrustManager.allowAllSSL();         // System.setProperty("javax.net.debug","all");          connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();          connection.setRequestMethod("POST");          connection.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", "**** SOAP ACTION VALUE HERE ****");          connection.setUseCaches (false);          connection.setDoInput(true);          connection.setDoOutput(true);          //Send request          DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream (                       connection.getOutputStream ());          wr.writeBytes (urlParameters);          wr.flush ();          wr.close ();          //Get Response              InputStream is ;          Log.i("response", "code="+connection.getResponseCode());          if(connection.getResponseCode()<=400){              is=connection.getInputStream();          }else{              /* error from server */              is = connection.getErrorStream();        }          // is= connection.getInputStream();          BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));          String line;          StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();           while((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {            response.append(line);            response.append('\r');          }          rd.close();          Log.i("response", ""+response.toString());          return response.toString();        } catch (Exception e) {         Log.e("error https", "", e);          return null;        } finally {          if(connection != null) {            connection.disconnect();           }        }      }

hope it helps. if anyone wonder allowAllSSL() method, google it :).

So if you use:

httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

It is still rest, but if you use:

StringEntity se = new StringEntity(SOAPRequestXML,HTTP.UTF_8);httppost.setEntity(se);  

It is soap???