Consuming MapPoint Webservice with MX 7

[Bruno Gubler]

Hi,
I want to use Microsofts MapPoint Webservice, wich is username/password -
Protected, with MX7.

I tried with the following:

<cfinvoke
webservice="http://staging.mappoint.net/standard-30/mappoint.wsdl"
username="#application.MapPointUsername#"
password="#application.MapPointPassword#"
servicePort="CommonServiceSoap"
method="getVersionInfo"
returnvariable="aArrayOfVersionInfo">
</cfinvoke>

The username/password is correct but I got the following error.

Any Ideas?
MS writes: The credentials must be set before you call nay of the methods

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Error Occurred While Processing Request
Could not perform web service invocation "getVersionInfo".
Here is the fault returned when invoking the web service operation:

AxisFault
faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HTTP
faultSubcode:
faultString: (401)Unauthorized
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{}:return code: 401

{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}HttpErrorCode:401



The error occurred in D:\home\hnt20a031\oo\tests\Allg.cfm: line 42

40 : servicePort="CommonServiceSoap"
41 : method="getVersionInfo"
42 : returnvariable="aArrayOfVersionInfo">
43 : </cfinvoke>
44 : #aArrayOfVersionInfo[1].Component#<br>




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Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
1.1.4322)
Remote Address 217.162.63.240
Referrer
Date/Time 23-Jun-05 03:57 AM

Stack Trace (click to expand)
at cfAllg2ecfm1072237646.runPage(D:\home\hnt20a031\oo \tests\Allg.cfm:42)


coldfusion.xml.rpc.ServiceProxy$ServiceInvocationE xception: Could not perform
web service invocation "getVersionInfo".
at coldfusion.xml.rpc.ServiceProxy.invokeImpl(Service Proxy.java:230)
at coldfusion.xml.rpc.ServiceProxy.invoke(ServiceProx y.java:143)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._invoke(CfJspPage.jav a:1587)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.InvokeTag.doEndTag(InvokeTa g.java:388)
at cfAllg2ecfm1072237646.runPage(D:\home\hnt20a031\oo \tests\Allg.cfm:42)
at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java :152)
at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(Inclu deTag.java:343)
at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(Cfinclude Filter.java:65)
at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(Applica tionFilter.java:210)
at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(Requ estMonitorFilter.java:51)
at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.jav a:86)
at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(Exception Filter.java:50)
at
coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.inv oke(ClientScopePersistenceFilt
er.java:28)
at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilt er.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilt er.java:38)
at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(Datasour ceFilter.java:22)
at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:105)
at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(Boot strapServlet.java:78)
at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker. java:91)
at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvok erChain.java:42)
at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequ estDispatcher.java:257)
at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(Servlet EngineService.java:527)
at
jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable( JRunProxyService.java:204)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invok eRunnable(ThreadPool.java:349)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRu nnable(ThreadPool.java:457)
at
jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeR unnable(ThreadPool.java:295)
at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java :66)

[Mr Black]

As far as I know, MapPoint uses Digest authentication, which CF does not
support. In theory, you could support it on your own, but I don't know is it
possible to provide a custom header with cfinvoke or not.

An alternate way is to do everything on your own using CFHTTP (CF Web-services
support sucks anyway). Not a rocket science. However, the same problem here:
you need to support Digest. This replacement for CFHTTP:

[url]http://www.cftagstore.com/tags/cfxhttp5.cfm[/url]

supports Digest directly, if you under Windows.

[PaulH]

have you seen [url]http://blogs.msdn.com/cthota/archive/2004/05/07/127964.aspx?[/url] what
exactly are you trying to do? are you fixed w/mappoint? i've had better luck
w/ESRI's webservice (arcWeb) and NAC or geoCoder US (if geocoding is what
you're after).

[Bruno Gubler]

I want to use Microsofts MapPoint with ColdFusion MX 7

Authentication
==============
The MapPoint Web Service uses HTTP digest authentication to validate accounts.
Unfortunately, as of the current version,

AXIS only supports basic authentication. Because ColdFusion simply
encapsulates AXIS, the ColdFusion Web Service layer

doesn't support digest authentication either.

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Does somebody have an emaple to work around this problem?