Hi Frank,
following is the example for logging to salesforce
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<cfsavecontent variable = "LoginSOAP">
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<SOAP-ENV:Header>
<m:LoginScopeHeader
xmlns:m="urn:partner.soap.sforce.com">
<m:organizationId></m:organizationId>
</m:LoginScopeHeader>
<m:CallOptions xmlns:m="urn:partner.soap.sforce.com">
<m:client></m:client>
</m:CallOptions>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body><!---Body of Soap--->
<m:login xmlns:m="urn:partner.soap.sforce.com">
<m:username>#UserName#</m:username><!---User
Name for login--->
<m:password>#Pwd#</m:password><!---Password for
Login--->
</m:login>
</SOAP-ENV:Body><!---end of the body--->
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
</cfsavecontent><!---End of the Login SOAP--->
<cfhttp
url="https://www.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/9.0"
method="post"><!---Variables to be posted at this URL --->
<cfheader name="Content-Type" value="text/xml;
charset=utf-8" />
<cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#LoginSOAP#" />
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="login"
/><!---method of the web service--->
</cfhttp>
<cfdump var="#cfhttp.FileContent#">
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