From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-04-08T02:09:20+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP and SSL (HELP!)

In article <40741DD6.7090202@fsisys.com>,
Scott Rubin  <srubin@fsisys.com> wrote:
>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. 
>

I noticed your post about this the other day and I was really hoping that 
someone would reply as I'm about to run into the same issue in a month or 
two - I'll need to get SOAP running over SSL as well.

Has anyone successfully done this?

BTW: What if you install 1.8.1 on your build machine so that both sides 
are using 1.8.1?  Perhaps that new code in netHttpClient.rb & 
streamHandler.rb would make a difference?

Phil