SOAP - Beginner Desperately looking for Help

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Rodney Garland wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am a relative beginner to Python and am looking for help with sending and 
> XML message and getting back a return file.  The server is:
> 
> https://node.deq.state.or.us/node/node.asmx
> 
> I have have successfully sent and recieved using the PING, AUTHENTICATE 
> (send in username and password and return a secuirity token), SOLICIT(send 
> in information for a query and get a number indicating the query), 
> GETSTATUS(status of query) using SOAPpy.  I am using Python 2.4 on a Window 
> XP machine.
> 
> What I want to do now is download the result of my query using the DOWNLOAD 
> method.  However, I cann't figure out how to do this.  I have tried SOAPpy 
> and httplib and I cann't send the correct XML outgoing message.  Any help 
> with this would be greatly appreciated.  Following is the needed outgoing 
> XML file and my successful SOAPpy code.

Use wsdl2py(.py). It come with e.g. ZSI, but SOAPpy also use wsdltools - 
which should include it. There is a WSDL given at the site, passing it 
to wsdl2py results in type-definitions. Use these as arguments to 
download - hopefully, that helps. I wanted to attach these - however, 
taht didn't work for NNTP, so I mail them to you.

This whole mess is another reason to depsise SOAP and stick to xmlrpc or 
better CORBA, btw.

Regards,

Diez