title: MuleStudio set Request HTTP POST Body
body: <p>I am trying to test MuleStudio as a proxy service, I would like to do a very simple SOAP request using a static XML request string - I am currently having problems doing a simple POST in Mule, the GET method works and appending the SOAPAction header also works, my problem is setting a xml string/payload as the POST body and getting a response.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be amazing as the documentation is limited...</p>
  
  <p>here is what I currently have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&amp;lt;?xml version=&amp;quot;1.0&amp;quot; encoding=&amp;quot;UTF-8&amp;quot;?&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;mule xmlns:tracking=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/tracking&amp;quot; xmlns:cxf=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/cxf&amp;quot; xmlns:file=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file&amp;quot; xmlns:jdbc-ee=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/jdbc&amp;quot; xmlns=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core&amp;quot; xmlns:http=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http&amp;quot;
      xmlns:doc=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation&amp;quot;
      xmlns:spring=&amp;quot;http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans&amp;quot; xmlns:core=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core&amp;quot;
      version=&amp;quot;EE-3.4.0&amp;quot; xmlns:xsi=&amp;quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&amp;quot;
      xsi:schemaLocation=&amp;quot;http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/http/current/mule-http.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-current.xsd
  http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd
  http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/jdbc http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/jdbc/current/mule-jdbc-ee.xsd
  http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/file/current/mule-file.xsd
  http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/tracking http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/tracking/current/mule-tracking-ee.xsd
  http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/cxf http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/cxf/current/mule-cxf.xsd&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
      &amp;lt;append-string-transformer message=&amp;quot;testets&amp;quot; name=&amp;quot;Append_String&amp;quot; doc:name=&amp;quot;Append String&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;
      &amp;lt;flow name=&amp;quot;testFlow1&amp;quot; doc:name=&amp;quot;testFlow1&amp;quot;&amp;gt;
          &amp;lt;http:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern=&amp;quot;request-response&amp;quot; host=&amp;quot;localhost&amp;quot; port=&amp;quot;8081&amp;quot; doc:name=&amp;quot;HTTP&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;
          &amp;lt;http:outbound-endpoint exchange-pattern=&amp;quot;request-response&amp;quot; host=&amp;quot;localhost&amp;quot; port=&amp;quot;80&amp;quot; method=&amp;quot;GET&amp;quot; followRedirects=&amp;quot;true&amp;quot; doc:name=&amp;quot;HTTP&amp;quot; &amp;gt;
          &amp;lt;set-property propertyName=&amp;quot;SOAPAction&amp;quot; value=&amp;quot;http://tempuri.org/getCurrencies&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;          
          &amp;lt;/http:outbound-endpoint&amp;gt;
      &amp;lt;/flow&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;/mule&amp;gt;
  </code></pre>