SOAP4R+WSDL+HTTP proxies?

[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

Has anyone had any luck getting the WSDLDriverFactory class in SOAP4R
to import an external WSDL file using an HTTP proxy? I'm fine on
anything behind the firewall, but nothing I try ('http_proxy' and
'soap_use_proxy' env vars, manually accessing ENV hash within code,
properties file, etc.) seems to work -- I get a timeout on every
attempt to load and parse the WSDL file.

There are possible workarounds, (like pre-fetching the WSDL file with
the normal Net::HTTP class, on which I can set the proxy options
easily) or hacking up my own version of the WSDL::Importer#import
method (since it appears that's the point of failure). I'd rather stay
within the normal SOAP4R API if possible, though, so if anyone has a
possible solution for me, I would love to hear about it.

Thanks,

Lennon
rcoder.net

 

[NAKAMURA, Hiroshi]

Hi,

Has anyone had any luck getting the WSDLDriverFactory class in SOAP4R
to import an external WSDL file using an HTTP proxy? I'm fine on
anything behind the firewall, but nothing I try ('http_proxy' and
'soap_use_proxy' env vars, manually accessing ENV hash within code,
properties file, etc.) seems to work -- I get a timeout on every
attempt to load and parse the WSDL file.

I'm behind a firewall when I'm in my office. soap_use_proxy and
http_proxy works for me.

$ soap_use_proxy=on http_proxy=http://proxy:8080 ruby -rsoap/wsdlDriver -e '...'

should work.

Does your proxy requires authentication? Currently soap4r does not
support Porxy Authentication...

Regards,
// NaHi

 

[Lennon Day-Reynolds]

Hiroshi,

There's no authentication required for the proxy, and I'm definitely
able to get through it using the standard Net::HTTP proxy methods. I'm
also trying to run this code on Windows, though, which may be
affecting the environment variable handling.

Unfortunately, I also can't know before the application is run whether
or not the end user is behind a proxy, and all of the SOAP
proxy-handling code seems to be designed to read the settings once at
library import time. I think that, for now, I'll just pre-fetch the
WSDL using a normal HTTP request, and then use the local file.

Thanks for the suggestions, anyway.