Access iControl Web Services Using MS Soap Toolkit

From what I remember about the SOAP toolkit, there were a bunch of issues with compatibility in various web services. Before .NET came out, we did do some testing with it, but that was over 4 years ago and I do believe that MS has stopped support for that toolkit (not that that helps you...)

 

 

With that being said, I can almost guarantee that those bogus values are not returned as part of the payload from the iControl endpoints. If you can run a protocol trace, I'd be very interested in seeing the entire HTTP Request and Response. From that I can determine what's going on and whether or not it's an issue with the iControl components or the MS Soap toolkit's handling of the fault.

 

 

It looks to me as if you are submitting the request without proper authentication (thus the "User '' is not authorized). This will return a SOAP::Fault with a HTTP status code of 500. It could be that the SOAP toolkit doesn't handle 500 responses that well. It could also be an issue with the SOAP Toolkits handling of SSL based web service calls.

 

 

If you can get me the protocol trace, I'll be able to help out further. Otherwise if all else fails, you could custom build a HTTP POST with the correct iControl method call as the payload and use the standard HTTP methods to send it.

 

 

I'll see if I can find the SOAP toolkit out there and reproduce this issue as well...

 

 

-Joe