[SOLVED] Raising a SOAP request to Efficy CRM using curl gives "Unexpected error: Incorrect SOAP Request"

Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:48:04 +0000

I am testing the SOAP requests with curl, on Linux.

This is the SOAP request I used: A file "request.xml", with the following contents:

  <soapenv:Envelope  xmlns:efficy="http://www.efficy.com" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope">
  <soapenv:Header/>
  <soapenv:Body>
  <efficy:logon database="mydbname" user="mydbusername" password="mydbpassword"/>
  <efficy:logoff/>
  </soapenv:Body>
  </soapenv:Envelope>

I then used the following curl command to raise the POST request:

  curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --data request.xml https://eua.efficytest.com/efficy.dll/SOAP?SS_ID=1

Executing the above command gave the response as an HTML, saying

Object Moved - This document may be found here:
https://eua.efficytest.com/crm/SOAP?SS_ID=1

Changed the command to use that URL instead, as:

  curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --data request.xml https://eua.efficytest.com/crm/SOAP?SS_ID=1

But that gave an error page as the response, saying:

[Error - 2018/06/19 11:06:16] Unexpected error: Incorrect SOAP Request

Where could I be going wrong?
What SoapAction should we use?

[SOLUTION]:

Thanks a lot for the answers.

Inspecting and comparing the request sent with the PHP code I mentioned in one of the comments here, and checking the request header for the curl request, found that the issue was with the way I passed the file name - we had to add an @ symbol to filenames, when passing to curl.

<?php

$location_url = 'https://eua.efficytest.com/efficy.dll/SOAP';

$client = new \SoapClient(null, array(
    'location' => $location_url,
    'uri' => "http://www.efficy.com",
    'trace' => 1
));

try{
  $return = $client->__soapCall("logon", array(
    'database' => 'mydbname',
    'user' => 'mydbusername',
    'password' => 'mydbpassword'
  ));
  //Get response from here
  echo "<pre>";
  print_r($client);
} catch (SoapFault $exception) {
  var_dump(get_class($exception));
  var_dump($exception);
}
?>

So this would be the correct command:

curl -i  --header "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8"   --data @request.xml   https://eua.efficytest.com/crm/SOAP?SS_ID=1

(Command options: '-i' shows the response headers).

And this would be the correct request file (request.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
  xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  xmlns:ns1="http://www.efficy.com"
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
>
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <ns1:logon>
      <param0 xsi:type="xsd:string">mydbname</param0>
      <param1 xsi:type="xsd:string">mydbusername</param1>
      <param2 xsi:type="xsd:string">mydbpassword</param2>
    </ns1:logon>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Using these two, I was able to get the Efficy Session ID in the response header. Here is an example output from the same:

[anto@anto curl-soap]$ curl -i  --header "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8"   --data @request.xml   https://eua.efficytest.com/crm/SOAP?SS_ID=1
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5
Set-Cookie: EfficySession=77EF504D-33890B88; expires=Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:47:43 GMT; secure; HttpOnly
X-XSS-Protection: 0
Content: 
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-Powered-By: ARR/3.0
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:47:42 GMT
Content-Length: 622

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="http://www.efficy.com" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">  <SOAP-ENV:Body>    <ns1:logon>      <param0 xsi:type="xsd:string">mydbname</param0>      <param1 xsi:type="xsd:string">mydbusername</param1>      <param2 xsi:type="xsd:string">mydbpassword</param2>    </ns1:logon>  </SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
[anto@anto curl-soap]$

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