From: Scott Rubin <srubin@...>
Date: 2004-04-08T00:27:20+09:00
Subject: SOAP and SSL

Hello,

I tried asking this question before and nobody replies, so I'm going to 
try again.  I am presently writing a SOAP client on an embedded linux 
device using Ruby.  Ruby and all its libraries and such fit and work 
just fine, even if it takes ruby 10 seconds to start executing.  The 
SOAP functions also work flawlessly.  The php web service we set up 
communictes just fine.  The SSL stuff also works just fine.  My problem 
is that I can't seem to combine the SSL and the SOAP.  Encrypting the 
SOAP envelopes is a must, and since I'm using http SSL seems to be the 
way. 

The SOAP library seems to operate on a level or two above the http 
client, so in order to get SSL working I would have to re-write, or at 
least edit the soap stuff.  I've got ruby 1.8.0 running on my build 
machine and 1.8.1 running on the embedded device.  I noticed that in 
netHttpClient.rb and in streamHandler.rb in the soap library directory 
that there is some ssl stuff, but only in 1.8.1 and not in 1.8.0.  That 
tells me that there is some way to do SSL with SOAP that was recently 
added, I'm thinking it is implemented on the low level, but not in 
driver.rb where I need it yet. 

Am I going to have to wait for 1.8.2 to get encrypted SOAP, or is there 
a way to turn it on with some other magic?  I tried just setting the URL 
to https://, but that didn't do it. 

Thanks,
Scott