title: Ability to call a soap web service from a browser
body: <p>I need to clarify some problems regarding soap web services. </p>
  
  <p>1) can I call a soap web service by just typing the url of the endpoint in the browser?</p>
  
  <p>2) does the answer for question  depend on what type of technologies used to develop the soap web service?</p>
  
  <p>If I need to invoke a soap web service, i need to send a soap request. But by just sending a <strong>get</strong> or <strong>post</strong> request from a browser cannot generate a soap request. so by default I shouldn't be able to invoke a soap web service just using the browser.</p>
  
  <p>but the following two resources are contradicting above assumptions of mine.Can someone explain me how these soap web services can be invoked without a soap request?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719483%28v=vs.71%29.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa719483%28v=vs.71%29.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p><a href="http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/java/how-to-call-web-service-from-browser" rel="nofollow">http://alvinalexander.com/blog/post/java/how-to-call-web-service-from-browser</a></p>