SOAP using net/http

soap.rb

# Thanks to:
# http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/12/creating-custom-soap-requests.html

require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'

# Create te http object
http = Net::HTTP.new('rpc.geocoder.us', 80)
http.use_ssl = false
path = '/service/soap/'

# Create the SOAP Envelope
data = <<-EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <m:geocode xmlns:m="http://rpc.geocoder.us/Geo/Coder/US/">
      <location xsi:type="xsd:string">1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472</location>
    </m:geocode>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
EOF

# Set Headers
headers = {
  'Referer' => 'http://www.appfusion.net',
  'Content-Type' => 'text/xml',
  'Host' => 'rpc.geocoder.us'
}

# Post the request
resp, data = http.post(path, data, headers)

# Output the results
puts 'Code = ' + resp.code
puts 'Message = ' + resp.message
resp.each { |key, val| puts key + ' = ' + val }
puts data