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Re:Employee #1: Amazon by berntb on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @04:55AM (#12441730)
This rings a bell right now. :-)

Last week I integrated with a service using (shudder) SOAP.

I tried the XML call with curl and couldn't get it to work. I cursed, I frothed. The reply error was some Java dump, not helpful.

It took me embarrassingly long to realize I got the HTTP header fields for SOAP from something wrong I googled -- it worked when I copied the header line from old code I wrote before... :-) :-(

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Re:Employee #1: Amazon by retromario on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:01AM (#12443005)
My approach with Stack Overflow is to never copy-paste but always re-type by hand. This forces me to understand each line of code and its behavior (and double-check any errors). I can't recommend this enough.
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