Ok, here we go. 1) I am trying to talk to a soap web service @ the url https://rsvcstage.e2ma.net/emmaTestCalls 2) I can talk to the web service in plain ruby if I: 2.1) disable site ruby (by renaming the site_ruby directory to something else) 2.2) use the WDSLDriverFactory instead of an actionwebservice The working ruby code looks like this: ******************************************************************* wsdl_url = "https://rsvcstage.e2ma.net/emmaTestCalls.wsdl" soap = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl_url).create_rpc_driver result = soap.sayHello puts "The result from sayHello is:" + result result = soap.testStringParam("Hello from darden") puts "The result from testStringParam(string my_string) is:" + result ******************************************************************* 3) The "equivalent" ruby code in rails fails. The ruby on rails code looks like: ******************************************************************* def hello soap_client = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("https://rsvcstage.e2ma.net/emmaTestCalls.wsdl") driver = soap_client.create_rpc_driver driver.generate_explicit_type = true @retVal = driver.sayHello() ******************************************************************* the results for that code is: ******************************************************************* Processing EmmaTestController#hello (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-06-27 14:47:49) [GET] Session ID: 613f45340158044b3c25a7eb029e0874 Parameters: {"action"=>"hello", "controller"=>"emma_test"} Error occurred in sayHello:uninitialized constant WSDLDriverFactory Rendering emma_test/hello Completed in 0.00010 (10000 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [http://localhost/emma_test/hello] ******************************************************************* which I was told was because the factory could not resolve the https. As a test to ensure that i could write something that would talk soap I created a call to google that looked like this: ******************************************************************* def googleSearch soap_client = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl") driver = soap_client.create_rpc_driver driver.generate_explicit_type = true query=params[:query] key = "this is the place for my key" @retVal = driver.doGoogleSearch(key, query, 0, 10, false,"", false, "", "", "") rescue Exception => exc logger.error("Error occurred in googleSearch:" + exc.message) end ******************************************************************* Ok, so I then tried to use actionwebservice''s driver_options to include ssl options. I also dloaded QuickCert to generate leys and loaded them into my public directory of my web server. That code looked like this: ******************************************************************* def hello opts = {} opts[''protocol.http.ssl_config.verify_mode''] = ''OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER'' opts[''protocol.http.ssl_config.client_cert''] = ''public/healeyt/cert_healeyt.pem'' opts[''protocol.http.ssl_config.client_key''] = ''public/healeyt/healeyt_keypair.pem'' opts[''protocol.http.ssl_config.ca_file''] = ''public/CA'' soap_client = ActionWebService::Client::Soap.new(EmmaApi, ''https://rsvcstage.e2ma.net/emmaTestCalls'', :driver_options => opts).create_rpc_driver soap_client.generate_explicit_type = true @retVal = soap_client.sayHello() rescue Exception => exc logger.error("Error occurred in sayHello:" + exc.message) end ******************************************************************* And the result from that was SSL not supported. ******************************************************************* Processing EmmaTestController#hello (for 127.0.0.1 at 2006-06-27 15:08:11) [GET] Session ID: 613f45340158044b3c25a7eb029e0874 Parameters: {"action"=>"hello", "controller"=>"emma_test"} Error occurred in sayHello:SSL not supported Rendering emma_test/hello Completed in 0.01500 (66 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [http://localhost/emma_test/hello] ******************************************************************* So then I tried to make a secure webrick server based the code in this email: http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html and put it in the commands directory with the other server. I copied script/server script to script/secure and pointed it to the secure_webrick script in the previous step. That didn''t work. After all this I am convinced of 2 things: 1) that this is harder than it needs to be 2) I am screwing up in so major way and I am pleading for help. Thanks in advance. Tom -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.