Sending HTTP Post request with SOAP action using org.apache.http

This is a full working example :

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost; 
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public void callWebService(String soapAction, String soapEnvBody)  throws IOException {
    // Create a StringEntity for the SOAP XML.
    String body ="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:ns1=\"http://example.com/v1.0/Records\" 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/\"><SOAP-ENV:Body>"+soapEnvBody+"</SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>";
    StringEntity stringEntity = new StringEntity(body, "UTF-8");
    stringEntity.setChunked(true);

    // Request parameters and other properties.
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://example.com?soapservice");
    httpPost.setEntity(stringEntity);
    httpPost.addHeader("Accept", "text/xml");
    httpPost.addHeader("SOAPAction", soapAction);

    // Execute and get the response.
    HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

    String strResponse = null;
    if (entity != null) {
        strResponse = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
    }
}

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