# Ruby SOAP Bug? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 3, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440 "2008-06-03T22:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/1 "2008-06-03T22:54:37Z")
I’ve spent a few days now looking on how to access a wsdl over ssl. I’m using Ruby 1.8.6 and SOAP4R 1.5.8 In short, I need to connect to a wsdl file and also need to do the basic authentication before SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new call. So I created a soap/property file and put the correct information in there. I followed this link for a simple ruby program: [http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/wiki/AccessingBasicAuthProtectedWsdl](http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/wiki/AccessingBasicAuthProtectedWsdl) After I set everything up, I started seeing weird errors. So I debugged an debugged and finally I saw something funky with the httpconfigloader.rb’s set\_basic\_auth method. So I googled to see if it’s a bug or not and came upon this blog: [http://cubiclecoder.blogspot.com/2005/10/of-aggregators-laptops-ruby-and-soap.html](http://cubiclecoder.blogspot.com/2005/10/of-aggregators-laptops-ruby-and-soap.html) He talks about the same problem I am having with set\_basic\_auth. But noone else seems to have this problem. So what do I do in this case? Do I submit this as a bug to Ruby guys? Is this indeed a bug? I would appreciate any responses. ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/2 "2008-06-03T23:31:01Z")
Greg L. wrote: > I would appreciate any responses. I wrote a blog post a few days ago about how to do this: [http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/62\_Consume+SSL+protected+Web+Services+with+soap4r](http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/62_Consume+SSL+protected+Web+Services+with+soap4r) maybe it is of some use to you. ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/3 "2008-06-04T00:04:24Z")
I actually have looked at your blog as well when developing/debugging. My coding strategy is pretty much the same as yours. I’m using client.protocol.http.ssl\_config.verify\_mode=OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY\_NONE option instead of messing with the certificates. However my problem is that the set\_basic\_auth function does not treat the entries in the soap/property file correctly. Basically what happens is client.set\_basic\_auth gets called three times with these values: First time: url, nil, nil Second time: nil, userid, nil Third time: nil, nil, password I find it strange that not more people are seeing this problem. And since your code is working, I confused why mine is not. What are your ruby and soap4r versions? ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/4 "2008-06-04T09:10:59Z")
Greg L. wrote: > I actually have looked at your blog as well when developing/debugging. cool 🙂 at least i did not write that post only for me alone 🙂 > However my problem is that the set\_basic\_auth function does not treat > the entries in the soap/property file correctly. Basically what happens > is client.set\_basic\_auth gets called three times with these values: > First time: url, nil, nil > Second time: nil, userid, nil > Third time: nil, nil, password i don’t know. this did not happen to me, so i can’t help you. sorry. > I find it strange that not more people are seeing this problem. > And since your code is working, I confused why mine is not. > What are your ruby and soap4r versions? ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32] soap4r (1.5.8) ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/5 "2008-06-04T20:00:32Z")
OK, I was able to solve this by using the soap4r gem. All I did was added: gem ‘soap4r’ line to the top of my code. ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/6 "2008-06-04T21:15:37Z")
Greg L. wrote: > OK, I was able to solve this by using the soap4r gem. All I did was > added: > > gem ‘soap4r’ > > line to the top of my code. Great. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/7 "2008-06-04T19:23:56Z")
So I think I might have figured out what the problem is. I looked at the soap4r’s httpconfigloader.rb and it handles set\_basic\_auth different then ruby’s soap/httpconfigloader.rb. I’m guessing the “bug” is really only in the ruby’s version. I have the soap4r gem installed but I am not using it for some reason. What is the difference between the ruby’s soap and soap4r? They seem quite similar. Am I suppose to require something to use the soap4r’s version of the code? Here’s my simple app, by the way: require ‘soap/wsdlDriver’ wsdl = ‘[https://server/path/to/file.wsdl](https://server/path/to/file.wsdl)’ soap = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create\_rpc\_driver And here’s the soap/property file: client.protocol.http.basic\_auth.1.url = [https://server/path/to/file.wsdl](https://server/path/to/file.wsdl) client.protocol.http.basic\_auth.1.userid = username client.protocol.http.basic\_auth.1.password = password client.protocol.http.ssl\_config.verify\_mode=OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY\_NONE ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/8 "2010-09-20T20:16:30Z")
S2 wrote: > Greg L. wrote: > > > OK, I was able to solve this by using the soap4r gem. All I did was > > added: > > > > gem ‘soap4r’ > > > > line to the top of my code. > > Great. Thanks for sharing. I apologize in advance for a dumb question, but in a Rails 2.3.x environment. Where should the property file go? And, when you say: soap/property Is it supposed to be a file called “property” in a directory called “soap” under “lib” ? e.g. PROJECT\_ROOT/lib/soap/property ? ---
**Author:** ![russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e36b37/32.png) [@russianbandit](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/russianbandit)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2012, 12:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-soap-bug/139440/9 "2012-01-25T12:36:22Z")
Galen Palmer wrote in post #942421: > And, when you say: soap/property > Is it supposed to be a file called “property” in a directory called > “soap” under “lib” ? e.g. PROJECT\_ROOT/lib/soap/property ? …just in case anyone else comes across this question: Yes, a file called “property” in a directory called “soap” somewhere in the ruby path or in your appplication’s directory.