From: davem1957@... (David Moore)
Date: 2003-11-18T23:12:25+09:00
Subject: A newbie query about Soap4R and dot net web services

Can anyone help me with this Soap4r problem?

I have created a simple web service in dot net using Visual studio and
have modified a sample program from the Soap4r distribution to access
it.

Here's the program:

require 'soap/rpc/driver'

class Exchange
  ForeignServer = "http://dmoorexp/calcwebservice/service1.asmx"
  MyServiceNamespace = 'http://dlogic.com/dmwebservices'

  def initialize
    @drv = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(ForeignServer, MyServiceNamespace) 
    @drv.add_method("Mul", "x", "y")
  end

  def mul(x, y)
   @drv.call(Mul) 
   return @drv.Mul(x, y)
  end
end

e = Exchange.new()
e.mul(10,20)

when run I get the message:

#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x2dd5d90>: Server did not recognize the value
of HTTP Header
SOAPAction: . (SOAP::FaultError)

Here is the soap header that the visual studio diagnostic program says
is expected.

POST /calcwebservice/service1.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: dmoorexp
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://dlogic.com/dmwebservices/Mul"

Any suggestions as to how I can diagnose what is going wrong? I am a
newcomer to Soap and Soap4r. Is there any good tutorial material
covering how to access dot net webservices?

Thanks for anything!
David Moore