SideBand Soap call

Hello,

Here you can find a peace of irule codesource :

if {[catch {connect -timeout 1000 -idle 30 -status conn_status VS_SOAP_CALL} conn_id] == 0 && $conn_id ne ""}{
            log local0. "Connect returns: $conn_id and conn status: $conn_status"
        } else {
            log local0. "Connection could not be established to sideband_virtual_server"
        }
        set appid 1
        set key [HTTP::header value MyID]
        set content [subst -nocommands -nobackslashes [ifile get soap_body]]
        set length [string length $content]
        set data "POST /WebServices/service.asmx HTTP/1.1\r\nContent-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length: $length\r\nSOAPAction: http://mysoapaction/soap\r\n\r\n$content"
        set send_bytes [send -timeout 1000 -status send_status $conn_id $data]
        log local0. "Sent $send_bytes with status $send_status"

        set recv_data [recv -timeout 1000 $conn_id]
        log local0. "([string length $recv_data]): $recv_data"

My SOAP Body is imported within an ifile. Within the SOAP body, I inserted $appid and $key where needed.

By doing the following command

set content [subst -nocommands -nobackslashes [ifile get soap_body]]

$appid and $key will be automatically replaced by the variable values within the content variable

and finally, I calculated the length with the following command

set length [string length $content]

and now you just have to build your entire request before sending

Thanks for the reply Yann, I didnt' want to hit the OS - so I was able to substitute the variables in using Mark Seecof's HTTP Super SIDEBAND Requestor!

With this HTTP client - I can just pass in the variables and methods I need to. Much thanks to Mark for his post.

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.HTTP-Super-SIDEBAND-Requestor-Client-Handles-Redirects-Cookies-Chunked-Transfer-APM-Access-etc.ashx

The HTTP Super SIDEBAND Requestor has been updated (a lot) and now handles 100-Continue as well.