Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

HTTP SOAP 1.1 Request and Response using POST

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Demonstrates a working SOAP 1.1 request and response using POST with a live server. You may try running this example with the URLs and data provided. See http://secure.smartbearsoftware.com/samples/testcomplete10/webservices/Service.asmx?WSDL for details Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

#  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
#  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

#  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Also see Chilkat's Online WSDL Code Generator
#  to generate code and SOAP Request and Response XML for each operation in a WSDL.
#  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

#  Generate the following XML:

#  <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:smar="http://smartbear.com">
#     <soapenv:Header/>
#     <soapenv:Body>
#        <smar:HelloWorld/>
#     </soapenv:Body>
#  </soapenv:Envelope>

soapXml = Chilkat::CkXml.new()
soapXml.put_Tag("soapenv:Envelope")
soapXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
soapXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:smar","http://smartbear.com")
soapXml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Header","")
soapXml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|smar:HelloWorld","")

print soapXml.getXml() + "\n";

req = Chilkat::CkHttpRequest.new()
req.put_HttpVerb("POST")
req.put_SendCharset(false)
req.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/xml; charset=utf-8")
req.AddHeader("SOAPAction","http://smartbear.com/HelloWorld")
req.put_Path("/samples/testcomplete10/webservices/Service.asmx")
success = req.LoadBodyFromString(soapXml.getXml(),"utf-8")

http.put_FollowRedirects(true)

resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpSReq("secure.smartbearsoftware.com",443,true,req,resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

xmlResponse = Chilkat::CkXml.new()
success = xmlResponse.LoadXml(resp.bodyStr())
print xmlResponse.getXml() + "\n";

#  A successful XML response:

#  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
#  <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
#      <soap:Body>
#          <HelloWorldResponse xmlns="http://smartbear.com">
#              <HelloWorldResult>Hello World</HelloWorldResult>
#          </HelloWorldResponse>
#      </soap:Body>
#  </soap:Envelope>