Call a SOAP Service with plain old requests

call_soap_with_requests.py

import requests
url="http://wsf.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx?WSDL"
#headers = {'content-type': 'application/soap+xml'}
headers = {'content-type': 'text/xml'}
body = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
			 <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:ns0="http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/" xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
			 	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
			 	<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
			 	  <ns1:Body><ns0:GetWeatherInformation/></ns1:Body>
			 </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>"""

response = requests.post(url,data=body,headers=headers)
print response.content

response.content.txt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><GetWeatherInformationResponse xmlns="http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/"><GetWeatherInformationResult><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>1</WeatherID><Description>Thunder Storms</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/thunderstorms.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>2</WeatherID><Description>Partly Cloudy</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/partlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>3</WeatherID><Description>Mostly Cloudy</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/mostlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>4</WeatherID><Description>Sunny</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/sunny.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>5</WeatherID><Description>Rain</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/rain.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>6</WeatherID><Description>Showers</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/showers.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>7</WeatherID><Description>Haze</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/haze.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>9</WeatherID><Description>Partly Sunny</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/mostlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>10</WeatherID><Description>Mostly Sunny</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/partlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>11</WeatherID><Description>Clear</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/sunny.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>12</WeatherID><Description>Fair</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/partlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>14</WeatherID><Description>Cloudy</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/mostlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>15</WeatherID><Description>N/A</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/na.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>17</WeatherID><Description>Drizzle</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/drizzle.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>18</WeatherID><Description>Fog</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/fog.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>20</WeatherID><Description>Flurries</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/blowingsnow.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>21</WeatherID><Description>Snow and Fog</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/blowingsnow.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>26</WeatherID><Description>Blowing Snow and Fog</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/blowingsnow.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>27</WeatherID><Description>Snow</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/snow.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>28</WeatherID><Description>Rain and Fog</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/rain.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>29</WeatherID><Description>Blowing Snow</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/blowingsnow.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>32</WeatherID><Description>Light Rain</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/rain.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>33</WeatherID><Description>Heavy Rain</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/rain.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>34</WeatherID><Description>Missing Data</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/na.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>35</WeatherID><Description>Snow, Blowing Snow, and Fog</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/blowingsnow.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>36</WeatherID><Description>Unknown Precipitation</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/na.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription><WeatherDescription><WeatherID>37</WeatherID><Description>AM CLOUDS</Description><PictureURL>http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/Images/partlycloudy.gif</PictureURL></WeatherDescription></GetWeatherInformationResult></GetWeatherInformationResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>