Anatomy of an Aras SOAP request

A typical SOAP request looks like the following:

POST http://Aras.Address/Server/InnovatorServer.aspx HTTP/1.1
AUTHUSER: User.Name
AUTHPASSWORD: MD5 hash of password
DATABASE: Database Name
LOCALE: Locale, e.g. 'en-US'
TIMEZONE_NAME: Time zone, e.g. 'Eastern Standard Time'
SOAPACTION: Soap Actions
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

<Item type="ItemType Name" action="AML Actions" … [Other Item Attributes]>
</Item>