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[Adam Bernstein <address@concealed>]

Hi folks.  I'm hoping to get either some simple help with using the SOAP 
interface or some less-simple help debugging a problem one of our users is 
having with SOAP.  The existing documentation is not helping at all, 
possibly because we don't know the first thing about SOAP or XML.  :)

The simple question is, how are you supposed to use the 
sympa_soap_client.pl script to run one of the standard Sympa commands?  I'm 
trying syntax like this:

sympa_soap_client.pl --soap_url=http://npogroups.org/sympasoap 
--service=authenticateAndRun --user_email=<my_email_address> 
--user_password=<my_password> --service_parameters="info,adamtest"

but no matter what I put in --service_parameters, and in fact no matter 
what I put in --service (even if I leave it out entirely), the only thing I 
get back is the output of the 'which' command.  Could someone please tell me:

1. Where is the correct place to specify the command I want to run?  Is it 
correct to use --service=authenticateAndRun, or is that supposed to contain 
the command, like --service=info?

2. Where do I find a list of parameters required for each command in 
--service-parameters?  Or am I using that entirely wrong?

And then for the more complex help, the problem that our user (who does 
know about SOAP) is having is that no matter what listname they specify in 
their Java app, with or without domain, the SOAP interface returns the 
error "Invalid list name".  Here's a log snippet from a query on a valid 
listname:

Aug 7 01:49:21 npogroups soap[55211]: sympasoap::info() SOAP
info(address@concealed)
Aug 7 01:49:21 npogroups soap[55211]: sympasoap::info() Info
address@concealed from address@concealed refused, list unknown

Any ideas why that might be happening?  We're still on Sympa 5.3.4, waiting 
for Sympa 6.0 final release to upgrade, but I hope that's not relevant.

Thanks!

      adam