Re: Authentication woes

2003-03-25 Thread Xander van der Merwe
>From VB I would use the following MS Soap Client low level API calling code: '--- create SOAP COM objects Set Connector = CreateObject("MSSoap.HTTPConnector") Set Serializer = CreateObject("MSSoap.SoapSerializer") Set Reader = CreateObject("MSSoap.SoapReader") '--- Prepare the Connecto

Authentication woes

2003-03-25 Thread Xander van der Merwe
Title: Sax and xerces I've been having problems getting authentication to work from non-Java clients (e.g. VB6, etc). I was wondering whether it would be so silly to ignore the normal authentication mechanism and simply included a UserName and Password set of parameters in each and every webs

NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet

2002-11-27 Thread Xander van der Merwe
I'm getting the above exception under Orion 1.5.2 when starting the Orion Server and it tries to auto load the Axis AdminServlet (running under the JDK 1.4.1). Now, javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet is part of the Orion.jar file, so I doesn't quite make sense to me. Any ideas why this might heppen?

Re: SimpleAxisServer & ?wsdl

2002-11-26 Thread Xander van der Merwe
Title: SimpleAxisServer & ?wsdl Some things to check (I've not tried it with the Axis server, only under Orion):   1. Running http://localhost:6060/services/AxisServlet do you see the newly deployed service in the list of services? Do the other services work if you click on the hyperlinks?  

Re: SOAPAction HTTP header required (again)

2002-11-26 Thread Xander van der Merwe
Ok, according to SOAP1.1 it looks like it is required. It would not be a bad idea to put this into the Axis FAQ since it is one of the biggest gotchas for any Axis newby. It took me a while anyway, to figure out how to get the MS Soap Client to work with Axis due to this requirement. Xander -

Re: SOAPAction HTTP header required.

2002-11-26 Thread Xander van der Merwe
I don't know of a way to avoid this, other than to change the Axis code to not throw an exception when the SOAPAction is empty. This might not be a bad idea as I believe the that the usage of the SOAPAction has not been formalized yet. On the client side (using the MS SOAP toolkit) I got around thi

Authentication with MS Soap client

2002-11-25 Thread Xander van der Merwe
Can anyone please tell me how to use authentication (and authorization) on a per webservice and method basis on an Axis web server when the client uses the MS Soap Client low level API.   I've tried to set the following in the MS Soap client:   Connector.Property("AuthUser") = "username"Conn