Simple Recipe for Debugging Web Services
Standard Deviations gives a Simple Recipe for Debugging Web Services (where he defines “Web Services” as SOAP as does my friend Yuhong) and it involves downloading a compiling a small command line utility called netcat.
Cool! I like it!
Only requirement is that you’ve got to be running Linux, but surely, if you are reading my blog you are an enlightened person and you use Linux, right?
Montreal, Canada 
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