[Zope] Cannot process SOAP requests

[Brian Lloyd]

> 	I'm trying to implement a simple handler for SOAP requests. 
> This is  
> for an interface required by a client, so the choice of SOAP over  
> XML-RPC, etc., is nothing I can change.
> 
> 	In order to figure out the way that such a request would be 
> formatted,  
> I added the following line to the handler script:
> 
> context.recordRequest(req=context.REQUEST)
> 
> "recordRequest" is a Z SQL Method that inserts the passed string into a  
> log database. I then created a simple WSDL that pointed to my Zope  
> handler, and invoked it using the Generic SOAP client tool available at  
> http://www.soapclient.com/soaptest.html. The request was recorded, but  
> none of the SOAP data was visible in the request! Here's what got  
> stored in the log:
>
> <snipped>
>
> 	There is nothing listed under the "form" section - that's 
> where the  
> XML request should be, right? And the CONTENT-LENGTH certainly suggests  
> that something was sent, but I can't see it anywhere in the request.
> 
> 	How do I access the posted XML from the SOAP request?

I think you want to use REQUEST['BODY'] to get the raw data. REQUEST.form 
is only populated with form variable when the data is form encoded.



Brian Lloyd        brian@zope.com
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