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Asked: 2026-05-12T23:41:38+00:00

I’m writing UI to test an asmx web service. Server and client are .NET.

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I’m writing UI to test an asmx web service. Server and client are .NET. Client proxy has been generated using wsdl.exe.

I would like to intercept and store a string representation of outgoing and incoming SOAP messages generated as a result of calling methods on the web proxy, so I can add a feature to the UI which will show the message just sent/received.

I dimly recall there are two pairs of extension points where code can can be added to intecept the message but I cannot remember how this was done. I think the examples I have in mind involved compressing some part of the message on the client and the reverse on the server, even though in my scenario, I want to store rather than alter the message.

Any hints and help gratefully received.

(I’ve partially implemented a SoapExtension. I don’t understand how the ChainStream method works, and I’m not sure how to notify a listener that a soap message has been trapped (since I’m not in control of instantiating the soap extension).’

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re on the right track with SoapExtension. Did you see the documentation and example here? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.services.protocols.soapextension.aspx

    The idea with ChainStream is you get passed the network stream that the request would be written to, and you have the option of returning a different stream. So if you want to save a copy of the request, return a MemoryStream, which the web services client will write the request into, and then in the ProcessMessage call you can copy the data out of there and pass it to your UI.

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