Having mucked around with this for hours, I found the solution just after sending that post. Murphy is my neighbor.
Solutions: I had a parameter named "body" with a value set to the SOAP XML string. I removed the name and left the value. Now life is good. -----Original Message----- From: Mark McWhinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:20 AM To: 'JMeter Users List' Subject: Converting Webservice(SOAP) Request to an HTTP Request To take advantage of some extra capabilities such as better SSL support, I want to convert some SOAP Requests into HTTP Requests. What do I need to do to get that to work? I copied the XML from the SOAP Request to a parameter named "body" in the HTTP Request. In the HTTP Request, I set the Method field to POST and the set the Path field. When I ran it, I got an HTTP 500 error and this message: soap:Server Unexpected character 'b' (code 98) in prolog; expected '<' at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,1] Any ideas? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

