# Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Client/Request
  • ABContactDelete
    • abId
    • contacts
      • Contact
        • contactId
• Server/Response
  • ABContactDeleteResponse
• Examples
  • Client/Request
  • Server/Response

# Introduction

ABContactDelete is one of the SOAP actions the Address Book Service provides.

Removes one or more contact(s) from an Address Book.

In Official Client terms, this will remove contacts from your Forward List (FL). For removing a member from any other list, read the DeleteMember article.

# Client/Request

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

# ABContactDelete

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: This is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# abId

This element contains the Address Book GUID to use.

# contacts

This element contains one or more <Contact> elements.

# Contact

This element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: This is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# contactId

This element only contains the GUID of the contact you would like to remove.

# Server/Response

The template used in this action is described on the Address Book Service main page.

# ABContactDeleteResponse

This empty element has only one attribute:

• xmlns: This is always set to http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook.

# Examples

# Client/Request

POST /abservice/abservice.asmx HTTP/1.1
SOAPAction: http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook/ABContactDelete
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 1107

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
	xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
	xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
	<soap:Header>
		<ABApplicationHeader xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
			<ApplicationID>996CDE1E-AA53-4477-B943-2BE802EA6166</ApplicationID>
			<IsMigration>false</IsMigration>
			<PartnerScenario>Timer</PartnerScenario>
		</ABApplicationHeader>
		<ABAuthHeader xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
			<ManagedGroupRequest>false</ManagedGroupRequest>
			<TicketToken>t=ticket&amp;p=profile</TicketToken>
		</ABAuthHeader>
	</soap:Header>
	<soap:Body>
		<ABContactDelete xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
			<abId>00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000</abId>
			<contacts>
				<Contact xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
					<contactId>c1f9a363-4ee9-4a33-a434-b056a4c55b98</contactId>
				</Contact>
			</contacts>
		</ABContactDelete>
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

# Server/Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 725

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
	xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>
	<soap:Header>
		<ServiceHeader xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook">
			<Version>12.01.1111.0000</Version>
			<CacheKey>12r1;MjAyNC0xMS0xOVQxNzo0ODowOS44MDNa</CacheKey>
			<CacheKeyChanged>true</CacheKeyChanged>
			<PreferredHostName>contacts.example.com</PreferredHostName>
			<SessionId>ecfaf8c7-e388-4571-8641-b061a0ac4bdc</SessionId>
		</ServiceHeader>
	</soap:Header>
	<soap:Body>
		<ABContactDeleteResponse xmlns="http://www.msn.com/webservices/AddressBook" />
	</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>