From: bluengreen <pnovess@...>
Date: 2007-04-20T23:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP4R WSDL Factory is horked! Anyone want to comment on why SOAP sucks in Ruby?

On Apr 19, 4:55 pm, Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackr...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> bluengreen wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I spent hours trying to find  a solution to why some basic code that
> > was actually pulled directly from page 630 of the O'Reilly Ruby
> > Cookboook.
>
> > require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
> > wsdl = 'http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-
> > quotes.wsdl'
> > driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
> > puts 'Stock Price: %.2f' % driver.getQuote('TR')
>
> > Why would this not work as expected on a Fedora Core 5 box? I get this
> > error:
>
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `initialize': Connection refused
> > - connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:555:in `do_start'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:544:in `start'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/netHttpClient.rb:115:in `start'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/netHttpClient.rb:92:in `post'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:170:in
> > `send_post'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:109:in `send'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:170:in `route'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:141:in `call'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:178:in `call'
> >         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:232:in `getQuote'
> >         from soap_test.rb:17
>
> > Its so basic. And yet it seems like there is no one other than myself
> > getting this error. At least I can't find a single peep from anything
> > on Google.
>
> Read the error message you posted. Your connection is refused in the
> first place.
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> wsdl =
> 'http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl'
> => "http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl"
> irb(main):003:0> driver =
> SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
> => #<SOAP::RPC::Driver:#<SOAP::RPC::Proxy:http://38.102.129.128:9090/soap>>
> irb(main):004:0> puts 'Stock Price: %.2f' % driver.getQuote('TR')
> Stock Price: 29.81
> => nil
> irb(main):005:0> VERSION
> => "1.8.5"
> irb(main):007:0> Time.now
> => Fri Apr 20 00:55:53 +0200 2007
>
> --
> Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowskihttp://cynicalryan.110mb.com/http://clothred.rubyforge.org
>
> Rule of Open-Source Programming #15:
>
> If you like it, let the author know. If you hate it, let the author
> know why.

Thanks I just tested on another machine at home and found that you are
right. It works fine. Its the firewall at work thats causing the
problems. The thing that confused me was the non-wsdl version works
fine. If I do it like this it will work fine behind our work firewall
-

require 'soap/rpc/driver'
driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new('http://services.xmethods.net/soap/',
'urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes')
driver.add_method('getQuote', 'symbol')
puts 'Stock Price: %.2f' % driver.getQuote('TR')

So that confused me. But I just noticed running through IRB that the
WSDL redirects to a different port. We block all ports except for 22,
23, and 80.

Thanks for pointing that out. It was driving me crazy trying to make
that work.

- Phill