HI , I need help resolving this issue. I have created a POST callout out to the Salesforce URL: https://login.salesforce.com/services/Soap/c/50.0 I added the SOAP raw body under the Body Tab complete with my SF credentials. I selected the XML option (and I notice that there is no “XML (tex…

HI @pranavdavar I discovered the problem: In order to stop the Content-Type from automatically displaying the application/xml , we need to: change the method from Post to Get so that the Content-Type will be removed. 1B) Set the Body Tab to form-data. In the Headers tab, add the new Content-…

"content-type of the request should be text/xml " Error when connecting to Salesforce via SOAP

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pranavdavar (Pranav Davar) August 5, 2021, 3:32pm 2

Hi @twill727, Welcome to the community!

On checking the documentation of the mentioned API, it seems this API supports content-type as “text/xml”. Can you please try to use “text/xml”

Hope this helps

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"content-type of the request should be text/xml " Error when connecting to Salesforce via SOAP

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