# SOAP Client **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 25, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-client/141433 "2008-06-25T20:51:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![robertpostill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@robertpostill](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/robertpostill)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-client/141433/1 "2008-06-25T20:51:12Z")
I’m a complete SOAP neophyte. I have managed to hack myself part of the way to my goal, so I suppose that’s good. Anyhow, I guess I’ll break this all down so you all can completely understand what’s going on. I’m trying to create a SOAP client to interact with a SOAP server provided by a client. Their website shows the proper way of formatting the SOAP message to send, which I successfully recreated with curl. I dove into the Ruby (with no help from documentation…because there is roughly 0 on it that I have found) and I pieced together something like this: require ‘soap/rpc/driver’ driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(‘url’, nil, ‘soapaction\_url’) driver.add\_method(‘GetLicensees’, ‘UserID’, ‘UserPass’) driver.GetLicensees(‘user’, ‘pass’) This works yet doesn’t work. I get an Access Denied return message. I fiddled around here and there and realized one thing, my method is missing something of (what I think) grave importance. my method is not getting a xmlns="" attribute–and the clients documentation says it needs a specific one (which we will call client\_xmlns). So my question is, how do I get add\_method (or use another method?) to add xmlns=‘client\_xmlns’ to my method. NOTE: I’ve taken the exact dump of what my Ruby is creating and sending to the server and put it into a shell script that uses curl. It fails. When I had xmlns=‘client\_xmlns’ to the method it responds correctly–thus I came to the conclusion of what my problem is. So that means it’s not another issue, so I think. Thanks in advanced guy, cheers! -Kotrin