RE: Calling a Web Service hosted on a Web Logic server from a C# S

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I too am having this problem. I have waded my way through literally hundreds
of posts on this topic and no one can seem to solve the problem.

I just need to add "AUTHORIZATION" to the HTTP Header (not SOAP Header - so
I can't use "ws.Credentials").

PLEASE MS - HELP US!!!!!!!!

The webservice I'm trying to connect to is written with PHP on Apache. To
complicate matters, I'm trying to do this on the Compact Framework. I have
seen some posts regarding the Overriding of GetWebRequest with this CSharp
code:-

http://groups.google.com.au/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp/msg/b1058abceb9610f8 (although I would prefer VB).

I cannot work out where this Override goes? It cannot override the method
in the base class for my WebService Proxy (SoapHttpClientProtocol), and I
would hate to have to roll-my-own Proxy for the WebService when wsdl.exe does
most of what I need.

Please help. I have a looming deadline that I'm struggling to meet.

Many thanks in advance.

Joe






"DStone" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have the same problem (although the server is Lotus/Domino). I just can't
> get my code to send out the basic authorization tag on the first request.
>
> In my case, the server does not respond with a 401, but sends back a html
> login screen, which causes the call to the webservice to crash.
>
> I've setup the credential cache, and set PreAuthenticate to true. Packet
> sniffer shows that nothing is sent.
>
> I'm using framework 2.0 with VS 2005
>
> "Striboldt" wrote:
>
> > I have tried using the service.PreAuthenticate, and it stills fails to
> > include credentials in the WebLogic web service request.
> > Are there really no solution to this problem?
> >
> > If you know how to do a Basic authentication up against a WebLogic web
> > service please tell.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Morten
> >
> > "John Scragg" wrote:
> >
> > > Nate,
> > >
> > > Try setting your "service .PreAuthenticate = true" on your proxy object
> > > before making the call to the ws method.
> > >
> > > If that does not work (cross your fingers ;-) Then you may need to look at
> > > WSE so that you can create a SoapContext object and a UsernameToken object
> > > rather than the build in credentials.
> > >
> > > UsernameToken userToken = new New UsernameToken("name", "pw",
> > > PasswordOption.SendPlainText) ;
> > >
> > > SoapContext requestContext = service .RequestSoapContext ;
> > >
> > > requestContext.Security.Tokens.Add(userToken) ;
> > > requestContext.Timestamp.Ttl = 60000;
> > > requestContext.Path.EncodedMustUnderstand = "false";
> > >
> > > Best of luck,
> > >
> > > John Scragg
> > >
> > > "Nate" wrote:
> > >
> > > > We are attempting to make a request to a web service (we will refer to it as
> > > > XXXServices) hosted on a Web Logic server from a C# SOAP client. The server
> > > > responds with a 401 Unauthorized error (that appears in plain text), and
> > > > causes the client to crash. This C# code has been deployed both as an
> > > > ASP.NET application and a WinForms app, each of which produced the same
> > > > result. Further, moving the clients from a Windows XP machine to Windows
> > > > 2003 Server on a different network resulted in the same errant behavior.
> > > >
> > > > However, a Java client that accesses the same web service succeeds. We
> > > > employed an HTTP packet sniffer to examine the difference between the
> > > > Request and Response interaction between the respective clients and the
> > > > server. First, here is the C# client's request:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> > > > POST /xxxservices/ws HTTP/1.1\r\n
> > > > Request Method: POST
> > > > Request URI: /xxxervices/ws
> > > > Request Version: HTTP/1.1
> > > > User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MS Web Services Client
> > > > Protocol 1.1.4322.2032)\r\n
> > > > Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8\r\n
> > > > SOAPAction: ""\r\n
> > > > Content-Length: 790\r\n
> > > > Expect: 100-continue\r\n
> > > > Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n
> > > > Host: xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.com\r\n
> > > > \r\n
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Next, here is the request made by the Java client
> > > >
> > > > Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> > > > POST /xxxservices/ws?wsdl HTTP/1.1\r\n
> > > > Request Method: POST
> > > > Request URI: /xxxservices/ws?wsdl
> > > > Request Version: HTTP/1.1
> > > > Content-Type: text/xml\r\n
> > > > SOAPAction: ""\r\n
> > > > Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx=\r\n
> > > > Credentials: username:password
> > > > User-Agent: Java/1.5.0_05\r\n
> > > > Host: xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.com\r\n
> > > > Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2\r\n
> > > > Connection: keep-alive\r\n
> > > > Content-Length: 686\r\n
> > > > \r\n
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Here is the C# client code, which fails:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > try
> > > > {
> > > > XXXServices service = new XXXServices();
> > > > String userName = "username";
> > > > String password = "password";
> > > >
> > > > NetworkCredential cred = new NetworkCredential(userName,password);
> > > >
> > > > service.Credentials = cred;
> > > >
> > > > String appString = "appstring";
> > > > String xmlReq = "A string that contains XML data";
> > > >
> > > > textBox1.Text = service.Url + Environment.NewLine +
> > > > service.sendxml(appString,xmlReq);
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > }
> > > > catch(Exception ex)
> > > > {
> > > >
> > > > textBox1.Text = ex.ToString();
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Finally, here is the Java code, which succeeds:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > try
> > > > {
> > > > String
> > > > wsdlUrl="http://xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxx.com/xxxservices/ws?wsdl";;
> > > > System.out.println("Getting proxy to = "+wsdlUrl);
> > > > XXXServices service = new XXXServices_Impl();
> > > > XXXServicesPort_Stub stub = (XXXServicesPort_Stub)
> > > > service.getXXXServicesPort();
> > > >
> > > > stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.USERNAME_PROPERTY,"username");
> > > >
> > > > stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.PASSWORD_PROPERTY,"password");
> > > > stub._setProperty(javax.xml.rpc.Stub.ENDPOINT_ADDRESS_PROPERTY,
> > > > wsdlUrl);
> > > > XXXServicesPort port = (XXXServicesPort) stub;
> > > > String xmlTrans = "A string that contains XML data";
> > > > System.out.println("Sending transaction: "+xmlTrans);
> > > > String result = port.sendxml("appstring",xmlTrans);
> > > > System.out.println("Result = "+result);
> > > >
> > > > }
> > > > catch(Exception e)
> > > > {
> > > > System.out.println(e.toString());
> > > > e.printStackTrace();
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The ideal outcome to this problem involves somehow "fixing" the C# code so
> > > > it plays nicely with the Web Logic server. We have entertained the
> > > > following possible approaches:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 1. Deploy the Java code as some kind of intermediate "translator"
> > > > between C# and Java SOAP formats
> > > > 2. Integrate the Java code using Interop into the C# client, so that
> > > > all the Web Service interaction is done in Java, but the business logic
> > > > remains C#
> > > > 3. Overload the auto-generated C# proxy to produce a header that
> > > > "looks-like" the Java header.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > None of these seems particular "right." Further, we're not entirely sure
> > > > how we would do any of them, since we are mostly a .NET shop and have little
> > > > Java experience. Our operations group is also not crazy about running an
> > > > Apache server to host the Java code, if it comes to that.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone on this list recommend either a) a better solution that works or
> > > > b) an implementation approach to one of the above-mentioned solutions, 1, 2
> > > > or 3? We would also be very interested to hear about similar experiences
> > > > and solutions that have succeeded or failed. Lastly, if this is a
> > > > documented problem that Microsoft, Sun, BEA (or whoever) knows about, and
> > > > someone can point us to an article, that would be very helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks in advance
.



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