The site given in Chapter 14 to test a SOAP request is currently not taking public requests stating:

The test form is only available for requests from the local machine.

Not sure if this always happens, but kind of makes testing the examples not work as written if the example site is down. :-/

-Dx

The web service is still up. The only thing is the it now does NOT support HTTP GET and HTTP POST. Only SOAP is supported. That is to say, the sections describing how to consume the web services using HTTP GET and HTTP POST will not work. This is not an error with the code, just that the Web services no longer supports these two methods. The concept described in the book still applies to any web services supporting these two methods.

Thanks!