Incidentally, do you know what is the equivalent in .NET of setting the user name and the password among the properties of the request? My web service class is inherited from SoapHttpClientProtocol and I don't see it having a request method or property that would allow me to set these two parameters. The only thing that remotely looks like that is the Credentials property of the SoapHttpClientProtocol class.
-----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eddie Lascu Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:33 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to connect to the remote server" exception Hi John, It's a long story. The guy who developed the ws is no longer under the payroll of the client and because of that I am not allowed to contact him (they are afraid that the developer will start billing the time spent with me). On the other hand, the client doesn't have any other technical person to look after the web service and they claim that everything is up and running from their perspective. Now it's my job to piece things together without much assistance from the other end. Anyway, I made some progress. Not being too familiar with the soapUI tool (I just installed it today) I didn't notice that fact that I can set the user name and the password among the request properties. Once I have done that, the response was no longer missing. Now I get this response: <SOAP-ENV:Body> <SOAP-ENV:Fault> <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode> <faultstring>Validation constraint violation: data type mismatch in element <dms-sign-type></faultstring> </SOAP-ENV:Fault> </SOAP-ENV:Body> I wonder whether this is generated by the server (for Cristian - you were right, the web service was developed in Java and is hosted by a gSOAP/2.7 server) or there is something wrong with my request. I'll dig some more. Thanks, Eddie -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Warner Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:05 PM To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to connect to the remote server" exception Importance: Low What do the people on the other side of this have to say? John Warner > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eddie Lascu > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 7:05 PM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to > connect to the remote server" exception > > Hi John, > > I already installed the soapUI 2.0.2 tool. When I use it to invoke the web > method I get no response. I am not prompted to enter the user name and > password. > > Thanks for your suggestion, > Eddie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John > Warner > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:39 PM > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to > connect > to the remote server" exception > Importance: Low > > > Have a look at this: > > http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en/asmxandxml/thread/5c70e2a2-9f1b-4338- > b > 96b-c32403744d2a/ > > John Warner > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:ADVANCED- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cristian Sturek > > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:30 PM > > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to > > connect to the remote server" exception > > > > Eddie, > > > > On (1), you are absolutely correct. The reason why you can "see" > anything > > while browsing with IE when hitting any of my Web Services is because of > how > > IIS "interprets" ASMX files out of the box. Apache and the rest are not > > that friendly. The response you're getting back, however, is correct - > if > > that address is an Access Point (which, BTW, it can definitely be, all I > > need to do is setup a Web Service under root and make the default page > the > > ASMX file), then GETs are not supported, it's expecting a POST. > > > > Sorry, I can't help out much on (2). It's been a while since I wrote > code. > > Can you find out more about the Web Service? Just my $0.02, it's > probably > > an Access Point created automatically by an ESB. Perhaps the > credentials > > are expected as SOAP Headers, but then the error message would be > > different. > > When you browsed with IE, did it prompt you for credentials? > > > > > > Cristian Sturek > > Principal SOA Architect > > http://www.xwebservices.com > > http://www.soahub.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Eddie Lascu > > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 11:18 AM > > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to > > connect to > > the remote server" exception > > > > Cristian, Joel et al, > > > > I made some progress in that I have tried a few things: > > > > - I switched on to the wireless network that bypasses the firewall and > now I > > don't get the "Unable to connect to the remote server" error. Instead I > get > > a new one that says: "The underlying connection was closed: The > connection > > was closed unexpectedly."; > > > > - If I point my IE browser to the "http://dap3.dot.ca.gov:18080/"; URL I > get > > some kind of SOAP response that indicates a SOAP-ENV:Client fault with > the > > error string being "HTTP GET method not implemented" (BTW, could this be > a > > valid access point for a web service?); > > > > This raises two issues: > > > > 1. The IE browser may not be the best tool to look at the web service; > > > > 2. My VS2005 connection is closed because I do not provide the user > > name/password I was given. I tried to write something like this: > > > > CredentialCache myCache = new CredentialCache(); > > myCache.Add(new Uri("http://dap3.dot.ca.gov/";), "Basic", new > > NetworkCredential("myusername", "mypassword")); > > objMyWebService.Credentials = myCache; > > > > That didn't make any difference. Can you guys comment on my approach? > Do > > you > > suspect that this is the problem? > > Obviously, there are some security features implemented in this web > service > > and I don't think I get them right in my code. > > > > Your help will be highly appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Eddie > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Joel > > Paula > > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:25 AM > > To: ADVANCED-DOTNET@DISCUSS.DEVELOP.COM > > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Web Service generates "Unable to > > connect > > to the remote server" exception > > > > > > Eddie, > > > > Sometimes the URL in the WSDL for the webservice is not the real one, > for > > security (?!) reasons. You can check it on your app.config or directly > in > > code, accessing its Url property. You can change it using any of the two > > methods. > > > > HTH > > JP > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentorR http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > > > > =================================== > > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com > > > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at > http://discuss.develop.com > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com > > =================================== > This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com > > View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
