Protected PALFA Web Services


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QueryDatabaseAsString

Ad-hoc database query and return VOTable as string

Test

The test form is only available for requests from the local machine.

SOAP

The following is a sample SOAP request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

POST /PALFA_WS/protected_WS.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: arecibo.tc.cornell.edu
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://arecibo.tc.cornell.edu/PALFA_WS/QueryDatabaseAsString"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <QueryDatabaseAsString xmlns="http://arecibo.tc.cornell.edu/PALFA_WS">
      <username>string</username>
      <password>string</password>
      <sqlText>string</sqlText>
    </QueryDatabaseAsString>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <QueryDatabaseAsStringResponse xmlns="http://arecibo.tc.cornell.edu/PALFA_WS">
      <QueryDatabaseAsStringResult>string</QueryDatabaseAsStringResult>
    </QueryDatabaseAsStringResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>