[cfaussie] Re: Consuming a .NET webservice

[Shane Farmer]

Jeremy,

We had a few problems a while back to do with consuming a .net web service.

The problem with ColdFusion MX 6.1 was it could not pass the credentials through the soap headers. I didn't want to have to build the headers by hand so we were able to get the web service changed to accept them as arguments. I think there was an update that let you add to the soad header but I couldn't get it to work properly.

The way the Seek web service does things is so you only have to authenticate once and just pass your token back each time. It isn't really to do with the language it was done in, just that every method call needs to be authenticated. Without seeing the other methods available after authenticating (probably only on non-test web service) I couldn't say if using the returned token is a .net or CF issue.

One thing I found anouying was the web service we were using was returning a .net dataset. We ended up writing a transform function that could go through a dataset and convert it to a CF query. The function still needs work unfortunately. The CF server doesn't seem to handle the process if there are 1000+ records returned. The XML was getting too big.

Shane
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