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Phillip Pearson: Having never done anything with SOAP before, I thought I might as well start here and hack up a Python wrapper for the service.  Presenting: microsoft_com.py.

Cool!

I took that as a starting point, focused on a single operation (top 10 popular en-US downloads) and removed all references to any toolkit or XML parser.  Here's the result.

Clearly the bulk of the logic is the handling of Web Services Security UsernameToken. Extending this to support other services would not be difficult.

Sam Ruby: MSDN top 10

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Sam Ruby: MSDN top 10

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Learning SOAP: Sam Ruby: MSDN top 10

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WS-Security in SOAP::Lite is hard!

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Sam Ruby: MSDN top 10

(SOURCE:"sam ruby")- Cool "de-Windoze-only-ization" of the new MSDN web service.  See ma, web services work with all the kids! QUOTE Phillip Pearson: Having never done anything with SOAP before, I thought I might as well start here and hack up...

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Microsoft COM Python

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Microsoft Top 10 Downloads, from Ruby

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Microsoft COM Python

MSDN top 10. Phillip Pearson: Having never done anything with SOAP before, I thought I might as well start here and hack up a Python wrapper for the service. Presenting: microsoft_com.py. Cool! I took that as a starting point, focused on a single...

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Is WS-Security in Java so hard?

Microsoft use WS-Security in their web services. Pythonists managed to access them using toolkits and raw text, while Perlists had difficulties with SOAP::Lite. The UsernameToken produced by both my Axis and Glue clients is rejected: is WS-Security...

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More on WS-Security in Java

WS-Security in Java turns out not to be that hard, especially when you consider I was just plain wrong on certain code decisions. Fellow Filippo Vitale leads the way with a SourceForge project to create Axis handlers for leveraging the users from...

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