From: Mark Thomas <mark@...>
Date: 2009-03-27T18:16:43+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP and NTLM Authentication

On Mar 26, 6:50 pm, Andrew Porter <partydr...@me.com> wrote:
> [Note:  parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]
>
> I'm trying to integrate with Sharepoint Services, and need to connect  
> to the server using NTLM authentication. I can't get the following  
> lines of code to work:
>
> WSDL_URL = 'http://sharepoint.wavetronix.local/_vti_bin/lists.asmx?WSDL'
> soap = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(WSDL_URL).create_rpc_driver
>
> I keep getting a 401, "Unauthorized" error. This code does work:
>
> client = HTTPClient.new
> client.set_auth(nil, 'DOMAIN\username', 'password')
> response = client.get(WSDL_URL)
>
> All examples I find show setting authorization properties AFTER the  
> create_rpc_driver call above. I need to authorize BEFORE so I can  
> actually access the WSDL file. How do I do this?

http://markthomas.org/2007/09/12/getting-started-with-soap4r/