From: barjunk <barjunk@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T09:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP problems

On Apr 26, 3:38 pm, barjunk <barj...@attglobal.net> wrote:
> On Apr 26, 10:46 am, Philipp Taprogge <Philipp.Tapro...@gmx.net>
> wrote:
> <snip previous stuff>
>
>
>
> > Unlikely. The error is pretty obvious: the XML parser encountered an
> > element it did not expect in the server's response: <html>.
>
> > This suggests that the server is not returning an XML document at
> > all but rather a normal web page. Perhaps this is a 404 or 500 error
> > page?
> > In any case, the create_rpc_driver method experts to find a WSDL
> > file which the server must provide.
> > Perhaps your perl code is not using a wsdl driver?
>
> > HTH,
>
> >         Phil
>
> Phil,
>
> Turns out that you are right, I type-od the url...shoulda been https.
>
> That was self-inflicted wound.
>
> Now all I have to do is figure out how to pass some arguments to the
> soap call and I'll be moving along.
>
> The perl is:
>
> my $login_result = $soap->call('login' => ('username', 'pass'))-
>
> >result;
>
> but I haven't figured out to do it with ruby.  I have tried:
>
> irb(main):170:0> p soap.call("login")
> "No username passed"
> => nil
>
> Which makes sense, but have no idea how to pass the username and
> password.  But I'll keep digging!
>
> Mike B.


OK...so here it is.

end_point = "https://my.endpoint.com/cgi-bin/ipc-SOAP/"
soap = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(end_point,"urn:/myurn")
soap.options['protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode'] =
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
soap.add_method_with_soapaction('login', 'login', "defaultusername",
"defaultpassword")
soap.login("realuser","realpass")

In my case if use a valid username/pass pair I get a 1, if not, a nil.

I'm not really sure what the purpose of putting defaultusername and
defaultpassword in the add_method statement above, but I tried "" and
" ", neither worked.  I had to actuall put string values.

For example:

soap.add_method_with_soapaction('login', 'login', "a", "b")

still worked, but :

soap.add_method_with_soapaction('login', 'login', "", "")

and

soap.add_method_with_soapaction('login', 'login', " ", " ")

didn't.

Thanks for the feedback.  Sure would be great if there was more
documentation with the soap4r stuff...where can I submit some?

Mike B.