I''m trying to code up Rails so that it can talk to the UK Government
Gateway using the submission protocol described here
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/schemas/Gateway_Document_Submission_Protocol_V7.0.pdf
Essentially it is an asynchronous request/response system that sends XML
messages over an HTTPS socket - fairly standard stuff.
Now assuming nobody else has already written this thing, I''m going to
have to know together some sort of library to handle to protocol. I
don''t think the standard SOAP or XMLRPC stuff will do the job.
Writing it in a synchronous form is of course fairly straightforward,
however from experience I know that the Government Gateway can take an
enormous amount of time to respond to a request (even with a simple
acknowledgement message), and I don''t really want the controller action
to block waiting for the Gateway to respond.
Is there a best practice way to code this sort of thing up?
TIA
Regards
Neil Wilson
Aldur Systems, UK
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