Consuming web service with VFP 9.0 with Certificate

[WIREMESH]

We need to connect to a web service to submit a transaction. The part we are unsure about is the client has requested that we provide them withan x509 public certificate. "The client must install OurCompanies public x509 certificate on the server that will be communicating with our service."

Normally, we would use code something like this:
oProxy = CREATEOBJECT("MSSOAP.SoapClient")
oProxy.MSSoapInit("

http://www.foxcentral.net/foxcentral.wsdl")

lcXML = oProxy.DoSomeMethod()


Does the use of a certificate impact our VFP program or is this handled by the web server (i.e tranparent to our application)?

 

[Mike Gagnon]

I would think it would impact your application. You will need to send to identification certificate to the webservice.

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2459.txt

Mike Gagnon

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[rkolva]

I don't know how to submit a certificate with SOAP but it's pretty simple to do with the COM interface for WinHttp as long as the certificate is in the certificate root store.

lsCertName = [Certificate's friendly name]
lsURL = [[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.foxcentral.net/foxcentral.wsdl[/URL]]
lsUserName = [UserName]
lsPassword = [Password]

oHttp = CREATEOBJECT([WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1])
oHttp.Open([GET], lsURL, .F.)	
oHttp.SetRequestHeader([content-type], [application/x-www-form-urlencoded])
oHttp.SetCredentials(lsUserName, lsPassword , 0)

oHttp.SetClientCertificate(lsCertName)

oHttp.Send()

IF oHttp.Status == 200 THEN
  ? oHttp.ResponseText 
ELSE
  ? TRANSFORM( oHttp.Status )
  ? TRANSFORM( oHttp.StatusText ) 
ENDIF

Ralph