Sending a SOAP query to reactome.org with curl - web-services

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(Note: this question was cross-posted on Biostar)
Hi all,
I'm trying to send a RPC-encoded SOAP query to Reactome (a biological pathways database), using curl:
I want to call the remote method
queryPathwaysForReferenceIdentifiers defined in http://www.reactome.org:8080/caBIOWebApp/services/caBIOService?wsdl
I created the following SOAP/XML file: soap.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:r="http://www.reactome.org:8080/caBIOWebApp/services/caBIOService" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:reactome="http://www.reactome.org/caBIOWebApp/schema">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<r:queryPathwaysForReferenceIdentifiers>
<r:referenceIdentifiers>
<soapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="soapenc:string[3]">
<soapenc:string>Q9Y266</soapenc:string>
<soapenc:string>P17480</soapenc:string>
<soapenc:string>P2048</soapenc:string>
</soapenc:Array>
</r:referenceIdentifiers>
</r:queryPathwaysForReferenceIdentifiers>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
and I sent it with curl using the following command:
curl -d #soap.xml \
-H "Content-Type: application/soap+xml" \
-H 'SOAPAction: ""' \
"http://www.reactome.org:8080/caBIOWebApp/services/caBIOService"
But the response is empty, whereas I expected a result.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Body>
<ns1:queryPathwaysForReferenceIdentifiersResponse xmlns:ns1="http://www.reactome.org:8080/caBIOWebApp/services/caBIOService" soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<queryPathwaysForReferenceIdentifiersReturn xmlns:ns2="http://www.reactome.org/caBIOWebApp/schema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" soapenc:arrayType="ns2:Pathway[0]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array"/>
</ns1:queryPathwaysForReferenceIdentifiersResponse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
is there an error in my Request ? where ?
Many thanks !
Pierre

Answer 1

the question was answered on Biostar: http://biostar.stackexchange.com/questions/5511