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[Finn Rudolph <address@concealed>]

Hi David,

thank you for the quick reply!

I assumed that if you're offering a demo server and putting a PHP SOAP demo including its source code out there, that everyone is welcome to fiddle around with the API!

Best practice would have been to allow anyone access via SOAP to the demo server. I assumed, that you want to show off the powerfull features of Sympa - including its SOAP API. If the API is too powerful and the demo server will get cluttered with noisy test data you could offer two Sympa instances: One for webfrontend users and one for developers that want to test the SOAP API.

At least a big HINT message in the PHP Demo Script - documenting that all requests from another domain than sympa.org will be answered with a HTTP 403 Forbidden Error - would have been nice. A comment in the source would have been enough for me.

Concerning your assumption, that someone made the choice to use Sympa based on his / her decision to try out the SOAP server first: I was delighted to find a demo script _before_ I had to install a fully blown service locally. Failing to get the exact same code running on another server made me sad and I was at the edge of saying, that the SOAP API of Sympa is broken ;D

Best regards
Finn

Am 30.11.2012 11:49, schrieb David Verdin:

address@concealed"> Hi Rudolf,

Yes, I'm sorry but the SOAP server is just too powerfull to let it open on the demo server. This server is there to help people discover the basics of lists management with  Sympa.
I was inclined to think that, if you're willing to use the SAOP server, then you would already have made the choice to use - and install - Sympa. Am I wrong in this assumption?

Regards,

David

Le 30/11/12 11:40, address@concealed a écrit :

Hi,

I am failing to use the SOAP login method requesting the demo mailing list
service at demo.sympa.org. I registered an account at the demo mailing list
service, copied your https://demo.sympa.org/sampleClient.php to our
development server and tried to make a login with the following demo
credentials:

    http://development.stadtwerk.org/sympa/demo

    E-Mail: address@concealed
    Password: sa-demo


The result is a fatal PHP error:

    Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Forbidden in /www/
htdocs/w00c2aba/development/sympa/demo.php:41
    Stack trace:
    #0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__doRequest('<?xml version="...',
'http://demo.sym...', 'urn:sympasoap#l...', 1, 0)
    #1 /www/htdocs/w00c2aba/development/sympa/demo.php(41): SoapClient-

__call('login', Array)

    #2 /www/htdocs/w00c2aba/development/sympa/demo.php(41): SoapClient-

login('rudolph@stadtwe...', 'sa-demo')

    #3 {main} thrown in /www/htdocs/w00c2aba/development/sympa/demo.php on
line 41


I then build my own test code with the PHP SoapClient Object and enabled HTTPS
on the test server, which also throws an exception:

    https://ssl-account.com/development.stadtwerk.org/sympa/


It all boils down to "[HTTP] Forbidden", hence my question: Am I allowed to
query the demo list via SOAP from another domain than sympa.org?

Best regards
Finn Rudolph

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