CDAS Web Services Test Page

This page contains JavaScript which calls the CDAS web services and displays the results. This page doesn't provide any useful, end-user functionality but is intended as an example for developers of client applications that use the CDAS Web services. The following offers some notes concerning the use of this page.

• The only browser known at this time to support SOAP calls from JavaScript is Mozilla 0.9.9 or higher and browsers based upon Mozilla (e.g., Netscape 7).
• The following outlines the recommended approach to executing this page:
  • Save the HTML file to your local disk.
  • Examine the file with a simple text editor (or other application that doesn't interpert the HTML and JavaScript) to see how the the Web services are called from JavaScript.
  • Open the file with a Mozilla based browser that has JavaScript enabled. Approve the browser's request to grant the script the privileges required to make the Web service calls.
  • Compare the resulting rendered page with what you expected from examining the JavaScript code.
• See SOAP Scripts in Mozilla.