Is normal a WSDL with a private IP address like SOAP address?

Question

I want to send requests to a .NET webservice through Internet, but the problem is the SOAP address in the WSDL has a private IP address:

<soap:address location="http://10.10.1.1/xxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy.asmx" />

And when I try to send some request, with PHP and NuSOAP for example, I get an error with this location:

HTTP Error: Couldn't open socket connection to server http://10.10.1.1/xxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy.asmx, Error (110): Connection timed out

Is this normal? In the other side it's using BizTalk and I think they don't know how to fix it.

I'd prefer a Perl solution like SOAP::Lite or SOAP::XML::Client::DotNet, but I thought a solution like NuSOAP would be easier than Perl solution.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '13 at 15:51

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WSDL has built in a local machine from a brower. You can access to WSDL in Asp.Net if You put the url

http://10.10.1.1/xxxxx/yyyyyyyyyy.asmx?WSDL

Endpoint can be change, you should put the specific url when you invoke the web service, after or before you put the credentials

answered Mar 07 '13 at 15:51

doterob

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Thanks, but I don't know if I've been misunderstand. I can't change the WSDL because it's not mine. – dayer Mar 07 '13 at 16:15

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 13 '13 at 10:52

As doterob has suggested, BizTalk will need to expose the web-service to the internet for you to be able to access the WSDL and consume it. In doing so, they will expose an internet facing address (e.g. http://web-service.biztalk.com/service.asmx?wsdl)

Once you have a copy of the WSDL, create a message that can be consumed by the web-service and configure your application to use the internet facing address for the web-service. The local network address (10.10.1.1) included in the WSDL assumes that you will be consuming the service from the LAN, not an external network (i.e. the interweb).

I won't go into the security implications sticking a BizTalk web-service live on the internet poses here, but that certainly isn't recommended best practice! I would however recommend that the web-service is secured with Certificate based Authentication at a very minimum.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 15 '13 at 09:51

I've achieved change the endpoint from private address to public address with XML::Compile::WSDL11.

Something like this:

my $wsdlfile = XML::LibXML->new->parse_file("http://$publicIP/wsdl");
my $wsdl = XML::Compile::WSDL11->new($wsdlfile);
my $call = $wsdl->compileClient(
    'operation',
    server => $publicIP # This change the server address to a specified address
);

Is normal a WSDL with a private IP address like SOAP address?

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