New to web services - where to start?

HTML & CSS
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Hi all

I need to create a website using web services that are supplied as part of a new application we have purchased.

Where do I start? I have a page which lists all of the services available.

I come from a php background.

I want to have a play with it for now, just pulling some data out and displaying it.

I’m looking for a good book or articles on working with provided web services.

Any assistance greatly appreciated.

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Some more information if this will assist:

POST http://ts.example.com:1024/soap/example HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: "urn:example-example#GetCustomerList"
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
Host: ts.example.com:1024
Content-Length: 636

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:urn="urn:example-example">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <urn:GetCustomerList soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
         <AStartingWith xsi:type="xsd:string">a</AStartingWith>
         <ACount xsi:type="xsd:int">1</ACount>
         <AStartPos xsi:type="xsd:int">1</AStartPos>
         <AMoreToCome xsi:type="xsd:boolean">?</AMoreToCome>
      </urn:GetCustomerList>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

The url tags should not be there, cant see how to get rid with the editor on here.

3

Hey Marcio

We are using a Borland Delphi system shich has a web services module written for it.

There are numerous ‘functions’ (is this the right term?) which can be called.

So far I have installed soapUI 3.5.1 and added WSDL which I found on the web services portal page.

This revealed all of the available functions and I have tested some of them and got data back out (within saopUI).

If I copy out the generated soap code and put it online and view it, it returns a 200 OK message (which I understand is the standard message). But in soapUI it returns data, where as online it only returns the 200 OK message.

Where do I go form here if I want to generate pages of data, the same as soapUI returns?

My other concern is security. As the list of available functions is published, surely anyone could scan these and do exactly what I’m doing and access our data?

Is there a way to lock down access to this? I guess it would be dependent on the setup.

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Each webservice is a world. And as several methods for accessing and work with. If you can be more specific about what webservices do you plan to use, I believe some good advices will arrive.
:slight_smile:

Márcio