SOAP post HTTP error

[MichaelA1]

Hi, I am trying to post SOAP to http://dev.mydomain.com:7071/service/admin/soap/

I am using MS.Net's HttpSoapRequest and Respose classes to post SOAP request. The xml is pasted below:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
<soap:Header>
<context xmlns="urn:zimbra"/>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<AuthRequest xmlns="urn:zimbraAdmin">
<name>admin@mydomain.com</name>
<password>mystrongpassword</password>
</AuthRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>


But I am consistently getting the following error in VS.Net:

"The underlying connection was closed: The server committed an HTTP protocol violation."

I would appreciate any suggestions?

Thanks.

[sam]

where's the documentation for HttpSoapRequest?

[MichaelA1]

Here is the code I am using...

try
{
// txt file containing the xml to post
string xmlfile = "AuthToken.txt"

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

doc.Load(@"F:\Test Code\Zimbra\" +xmlfile);

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://myurl:7071/service/admin/soap/");


// if SOAPAction header is required, add it here...
// this does not help either uncommented or commented
//req.Headers.Add("SOAPAction","\"\"");

req.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"";
req.Accept = "text/xml";
req.Method = "POST";

Stream stm = req.GetRequestStream();

doc.Save(stm);

stm.Close();

//runs fine up to this point
//================================================= //Protocol exception generated here at Request::GetResponse()
HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();



// Releases the resources of the response.

stm = myHttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream();
//myHttpWebResponse.Close();

//=================================================
}
catch(Exception e)
{
Console.WriteLine("error occured " + e.Message);
}

[KevinH]

It should be an SSL request so:

https://myurl:7071/service/admin/soap/

[MichaelA1]

Oh, Does the URL have to be using SSL? I was just testing and using "post" to HTTPS would require more code writing. So to cut out some dev time I have just been posting to http for testing.

But could it be why this is throwing the exception?

[KevinH]

By default we only accept SSL on that port. So unless you've configured it for HTTP it won't work. The exception IMHO is the HTTP parser barfing on the SSL handshake.

[MichaelA1]

Great, Thanks. I will code the complete SSL posting functionalities and let you know my progress.