I'm new in dealing connecting to a WebSphere Process Server application connecting to Web Services account, so I'm still learning.
I would like to create new Incident Requests in BMC Remedy Service Desk with 2 simple fields (Assigned User and Text in the body of the IR) from a Wordpress webform built on PHP and hosted by IIS server. I was told by the Remedy admin that using automated emails is not allowed to create new Incident Requests, but it might be possible to consume a web service (that is hosted by their WebSphere Process Server application) and he believes the Web Services are available using SOAP and REST as options.
Would this be the the best way to go? If not what would? Is there any tutorials or documentation on how to do this? Thanks in advanced.
Use one of the following options:
PHP AR API
$Server = new ARAPI( "server", "user", "password" );
$Values = $Server->createentry( "form", 2, 8 );
Driver Program along with the command-line API, CLI SAPI
php -r "exec('driver < my_driver_script.txt')"
References
PHP AR API
PHP CLI SAPI
AR System APIs Quick Start: Driver
PHP at the core
Zend Extensions
Related
I created an ExtJS 5 application with Sencha Cmd.
I will deploy this application in a tomcat server where there are some REST web services.
I would need to use these web services but when I run the application with "sencha app watch" (on port 1841) it doesn't find the services because they are on a differente server (tomcat is on a different port).
How can I use an "external" web service with Sencha CMD?
Thanks
stefano
Here are some of the available options:
Option 1 Proxy Web Service
You could create a service on the local machine where the sencha app is that create web requests that then goto the target remote services. This is called a proxy service.
Essentially the proxy service will take a request and resubmit it to the desired target remote machine.
There is a php example here
And a C# web request example here (Although this c# example isn't exactly what you are needing. The base of the web request that would need to be submitted is in this code. )
Option 2 JsonP
The other option off the top, is if the web services on the other machine support jsonp they should be accessible. However, jsonp only supports get so if you have a full rest implementation some services will probably not work.
More information on jsonp
And an extjs request example for JsonP:
Ext.data.JsonP.request({
'url': 'url',
params: {
'param1': 'value'
},
success: function (result, request) {
//success
}
});
Option 3 Hosting multiple apps/paths on single port
However, since it seems like the tomcat server may actually be on the same machine. Is there not a way to host both the web services and the application path through tomcat?
It looks like, for instance, jetty has an option to host two apps on the same port
Option 4 Enable CORS
You can enable cross origin resource sharing on the rest application depending on the architecture/framework used.
The browser will basically send a request first to see if it can access the resource. And then the server would respond with the allowed origin domains. Once CORS is enabled then access could be granted between the two different ports/servers
Great site on CORS with instructions for enabling on most basic setups
Here is example documentation for spring
I have created an android application that calls (using kSOAP library) a SOAP based web service (developed in java, netbeans) over the intranet.
Now i want to make the application live, so this will require my web service to be exposed on the internet.
I have following questions...
How do i make sure that no one knows about the web service link except my android application
No one is able to call the web service except my android application
The data transferred between android application and web service is secure and encrypted
What kind of authentication mechanism should be used
I'm new to web services security so forgive me if my questions are dumb :)
This is impossible. Anyone having your app might use a traffic analyzer like wireshark and see all the requests it makes.
Sign each request you app makes(add some soap header) and check the signature on the server side
Use HTTPS
How to do authentication using SOAP?
Working on a project where I need to consume a web service over HTTPS (SSL) using Domino 8.0.2.
Was able to create the script library to consume the web service.
Created a simple button to test consuming it with this code:
Use "AA-FEED"
Sub Click(Source As Button)
Dim ws1 As New IAccountService_n1
Dim r1 As New ArrayOfValidSystem_n2
Set r1 = ws1.GetValidSystemsList()
End Sub
When called, Notes prompts for me to Cross Certify with your server, which I do.
That is to be expected.
Click on 'Cross Certify" button and then the web service is contacted and returns an error message:
"The Web Service IAccountService_n1 method GetValidSystemsList has returned a fault."
So...
The provider of the web serivce says when it is consumed in Java, they add certifier information to the soap header.
Not sure if the Cross Certify actions in Lotus would do equlivent in LotusScript.
If the WebService requires authentication, in your generated web service consumer code, add the following after the webservice initialize call:
Sub NEW
Call Service.Initialize ("UrnDefaultNamespaceWSQueryService", ...
'ADD THE FOLLOWING
'set userid and password if required
Call Service.SetCredentials("userid","password")
'set SSL options
Call Service.SetSSLOptions(NOTES_SSL_ACCEPT_SITE_CERTS + NOTES_SSL_ACCEPT_EXPIRED_CERTS)
Web services in LotusScript has a Java component to it when communicating (uses AXIS).
It might be that you have to put the certificate into the CACERTS. The following wiki article explains this.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ddwiki.nsf/dx/Connecting_to_a_Domino_server_over_SSL_in_Java_using_a_self_signed_certificate._
I apologize in advance if the question is ridiculous.
I have an asmx service running in Azure (HTTP - no SSL).
I have a WPF app that loads a X509Certificate2 and adds it to the request by doing the following:
X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2("...");
webRequest.ClientCertificates.Add(cert);
In the web service I get the certificate by
new X509Certificate2(this.Context.Request.ClientCertificate.Certificate)
And then I load a cert (that I have both uploaded to the Azure control panel and added to my service definition file) by using the following sample:
var store = new X509Store(StoreName.My, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);
store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadOnly | OpenFlags.OpenExistingOnly);
X509Certificate2Collection certs = store.Certificates.Find(X509FindType.FindBySubjectName, certName, true);
And then I validate by doing the following:
clientCert.Thumbprint == certs[0].Thumbprint
Now unfortunately I get an exception (System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: m_safeCertContext is an invalid handle) as soon as I do
Request.ClientCertificate.Certificate
So I have a few questions. How do I avoid the exception. This answer states I need to modify an IIS setting, but how can I do that in Azure?
In any case is this even the proper way to do certificate authentication?
Thanks!
You can use command scripts to modify IIS, in combination with appcmd.exe.
For a quick example (disabling timeout in an application pool), take a look at this sample by Steve Marx.
In this example, you'd call DisableTimeout.cmd as a startup task. For more info on creating startup tasks, you can watch this episode of Cloud Cover Show. There should be a lab on startup tasks in the Platform Training Kit as well.
Just remember that any type of IIS configuration change should be made via an automated task at startup. If you manually change IIS via RDP, those changes won't propagate to all of your instances, and won't remain persistent in the event of hardware failure or OS update.
You can remote into your azure instances to manage IIS. As for a way to do it globally for all instances at once, I'm not sure. That would be an interesting side project though.
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/979/managing-iis-on-windows-azure-via-remote-desktop/
I have a Axis2 web service secured using Rampart. I do want to develop secure clients for it, preferably JAX-WS based. I tried a lot of tutorials but they are so closed tied with each other, like including Axis2 libraries in the client side. The client should be fairly independent of the WS service framework, as the service can be consumed by .NET based clients or even PHP based clients.
Thanks in advance...
As I understand it, you would want to be able to feed the policy defined for your Rampart secured web service into your JAX-WS client.
That ought to be doable. As you say-- the idea is to be able to execute different client and server technologies, standardized around WSDLs...
We're only just getting into this - so I don't have any hands on knowledge for you.
But I would think you should be able to copy the policy info for your rampart on the server in the services.xml file and put it in your client.
This seemed pretty helpful:
https://metro.dev.java.net/guide/
Sections 12 and 18 in particular.