Getting Started With Ruby and iControl

Nimbostratus

Jun 13, 2012

I had to patch the file lib/f5-icontrol.rb in order to make it work for me:

- It lacked the usage of the http_proxy I configured in my env, fixed by:

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@proxy = ENV['https_proxy'] in initialize()

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- The endpoint_url wasn't constructed the right way:

https://213.71.15.10//iControl/iControlPortal.cgi

makes the F5 do respond with a 302 (redirect) to the location "/tmui/login.jsp" which results in this error:

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/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.2.5/lib/httpclient/util.rb:117:in `https?': undefined method `downcase' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.2.5/lib/httpclient/session.rb:738:in `connect'

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This diff addresses both problems:

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--- /tmp/f5/lib/f5-icontrol.rb 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100

+++ lib/f5-icontrol.rb 2012-06-13 12:20:11.369138428 +0200

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@

@wsdls = wsdls

@endpoint = '/iControl/iControlPortal.cgi'

@interfaces = {}

+ @proxy = ENV['https_proxy']

end

def get_interfaces

@@ -25,10 +26,11 @@

@interfaces[wsdl] = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new('file://' + wsdl_path).create_rpc_driver

@interfaces[wsdl].options['protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode'] = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

@interfaces[wsdl].options['protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_callback'] = lambda{ |arg1, arg2| true }

+ @interfaces[wsdl].options['protocol.http.proxy'] = @proxy if !@proxy.nil?

- @interfaces[wsdl].options['protocol.http.basic_auth'] << ['https://' + @hostname + '/' + @endpoint, @username, @password]

- @interfaces[wsdl].endpoint_url = 'https://' + @hostname + '/' + @endpoint

+ @interfaces[wsdl].options['protocol.http.basic_auth'] << ['https://' + @hostname + @endpoint, @username, @password]

+ @interfaces[wsdl].endpoint_url = 'https://' + @hostname + @endpoint

end

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