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6 SOAP::WSDL::Manual::Cookbook - SOAP::WSDL recipes
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8 Accessing HTTPS webservices
9 You need Crypt::SSLeay installed to access HTTPS webservices.
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11 Accessing protected web services
12 Passing a username and password, or a client certificate and key, to
13 the transport layer is highly dependent on the transport backend. The
14 descriptions below are for HTTP(S) transport using LWP::UserAgent
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16 Accessing HTTP(S) webservices with basic/digest authentication
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18 When using SOAP::WSDL::Transport::HTTP (SOAP::Lite not installed), add
19 a method called "get_basic_credentials" to SOAP::WSDL::Transport::HTTP:
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21 *SOAP::WSDL::Transport::HTTP::get_basic_credentials = sub {
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25 When using SOAP::Transport::HTTP (SOAP::Lite is installed), do the same
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28 *SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::get_basic_credentials = sub {
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32 Accessing HTTP(S) webservices protected by NTLM authentication
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34 If you want to connect to a windows server using some Windows Domain
35 Login, please consider using Kerberos instead of the (older) NTLM
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38 Kerberos and NTLM are (currently) mutually exclusive - when
39 LWP::Authen::Negotiate is installed, it will always be queried (and
40 will always raise an error), even if you don't want to use it. See
41 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=32826 for details.
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43 You need the NTLM distribution installed to access webservices
44 protected by NTLM authentication. More specifically, you need the
45 Authen::NTLM module from this distribution. Note that this is different
46 from the Authen::NTML distribution by Yee Man Chan also available from
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49 Your user credentials usually need to include the windows domain or the
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58 Besides passing user credentials as when accessing a web service
59 protected by basic or digest authentication, you also need to enforce
60 connection keep_alive on the transport backens.
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62 To do so, pass a proxy argument to the new() method of the generated
63 class. This unfortunately means that you have to set the endpoint URL,
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66 my $interface = MyInterfaces::SERVICE_NAME::PORT_NAME->new({
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70 You may, of course, decide to just hack the generated class. Be advised
71 that subclassing might be a more appropriate solution - re-generating
72 overwrites changes in interface classes.
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74 Accessing HTTP(S) webservices protected by NTLMv2
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76 There are different variants of NTLM, and by default Authen::NTLM uses
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79 NTLM is a connection-based handshake authentication protocol, which
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82 Request POST
83 Response 401 Unauthorized
84 WWW-Authenticate: NTLM
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86 Request Authorization: NTLM <base64-encoded type-1-message>
87 Response 401 Unauthorized
88 WWW-Authenticate: NTLM <base64-encoded type-2-message>
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90 Request Authorization: NTLM <base64-encoded type-3-message>
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102 Authorization NTLM TlRMTVNTUAABAAAAB7IAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw ... much longer ... ADACAAAABmb28=
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104 If you're talking to a Server using NTLMv2 exclusively, you will only
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112 This globally enables the use of NTLMv2. Note that this is a global
113 setting: All clients running in the same perl interpreter will be
114 affected. This can cause unexpected issues when running under mod_perl.
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116 Accessing webservices protected by HTTP Kerberos Authentication
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118 Use the LWP::Authen::Negotiate plugin from CPAN. You need to set up
119 GSSAPI to perform the Kerberos authentication, though. How to do this
120 is implementation specific (MIT or Heimdahl). See your Kerberos/GSSAPI
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123 (Newer) Windows Web Services usually allow one to use both the
124 Negotiate (Kerberos) and NTLM authentication scheme.
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126 Accessing HTTPS webservices protected by certificate authentication
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128 You need Crypt::SSLeay installed to access HTTPS webservices.
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134 Outputting namespaces as prefixes
135 Q: I need to interface with a SOAP server which doesn't accept the
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138 <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
139 xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
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141 <getElement xmlns="http://services.company.com/">
142 <elementId>12345</elementId>
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149 <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
150 xmlns:ns2="http://services.company.com/"
151 xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
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163 First, you would need to write a new serializer, which is quite easy,
164 as it just creates the envelope and calls ->serialize_qualified() on
165 $header and $body to fill them in. The new serializer has to declare
166 all namespace prefixes used, the rest is just the same as the original
167 XSD serializer.
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169 Second, you'd need to overwrite the start_tag method in
170 SOAP::WSDL::XSD::Typelib::Element to use the appropriate prefixes for
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173 In contrast to the original method, it would probably look up the
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176 SOAP::WSDL::XSD::Typelib::Element and override the method.
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178 Something like this should do (without the handling of specialties like
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183 *SOAP::WSDL::XSD::Typelib::Element::start_tag = sub {
184 # use prefix instead of xmlns attribute and copy the rest from
185 # SOAP::WSDL::XSD::Typelib::Element::start_tag
186 my $prefix = $PREFIX_OF{ $_[0]->get_xmlns() };
187 my $name = $_[1]->{ name } || $self->__get_name();
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199 Disabling strict XML processing in a Client
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209 my $soap = MyInterface::Test->new({
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213 my $result = $soap->SomeMethod();
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215 Disabling strict XML processing in a CGI based server
216 You have to set the deserializer in the transport class explicitly to a
217 SOAP::WSDL::Deserializer object with the "strict" option set to 0.
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219 Example: The generated SOAP server is assumed to be "MyServer::Test".
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226 transport_class => 'SOAP::WSDL::Server::CGI',
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229 $soap->get_transport()->set_deserializer(
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235 Disabling strict XML processing in a mod_perl based server
236 Sorry, this is not implemented yet - you'll have to write your own
237 handler class based on SOAP::WSDL::Server::Mod_Perl2.
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240 SOAP::WSDL uses utf-8 per default: utf-8 is the de-facto standard for
241 webservice ommunication.
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243 However, you can change the encoding the transport layer announces by
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246 You probably have to write your own serializer class too, because the
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249 Just look into SOAP::WSDL::Serializer on how to do that.
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251 Don't forget to register your serializer at the serializer factory
252 SOAP::WSDL::Factory::Serializer.
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255 Copyright 2008, 2009 Martin Kutter.
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257 This file is part of SOAP-WSDL. You may distribute/modify it under the
258 same terms as perl itself.
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261 Martin Kutter <martin.kutter fen-net.de>
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