Hammy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I have code that calls a SOAP service. The service requires that I pass it a certificate (The public piece of the certificate is loaded into the owner of the services web server). Previously I was using the SSL cert on the box and everything worked well. I went to Verisign to get a Class 1 cert. When using that cert, I get the following error: 
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: 500 (Internal Server Erro
+r) configure certs failed: failed to load /usr/local/certs/staging.ce
+r:

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This error happens during the submission of the service so it is not ever getting to the service.

Here is the code that I am using to call the service: 

$ENV{HTTPS_CERT_FILE}= '/usr/local/certs/staging.cer';
$ENV{HTTPS_KEY_FILE}  = '/usr/local/certs/staging.pfx';
use XML::Simple;
use SOAP::Lite +trace; 

my $data = SOAP::Data->name('data' => "$xml")->type('string')->uri('')
+;

my $s = SOAP::Lite
-> uri ('http://my.site.com/SoapService')
-> proxy ('https://stagingdi.site.com/SoapService/SoapService.asmx')
-> on_action(sub{join '/', @_})
-> on_fault(sub{});

$result = $s->PerformUpdate($data)->result;

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Does anyone have a clue where I can go to find out what I might be doing incorrectly? Thanks in advance.

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Re: SOAP and class1 cert
by idsfa (Vicar) on Aug 24, 2005 at 15:58 UTC

    The code doesn't support https. Excerpt from the send_receive method indicated in your error message:

    sub send_receive {
    .
    .
    .
    my $http_endpoint = qq[http://$host:$port$endpoint];
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    my $post = HTTP::Request->new('POST', $http_endpoint, ...

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    Note the hardcoded http. Did you actually test to confirm that you were passing SSL connections?

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      I have been using this code for about 1 year now and there have been no problems. It works like a charm when I use the SSL cert on the box, but not when I use the class one cert I just aquired. I found one thing I am doing wrong was trying to use the pfx file. I have converted it to a pem, but I now get an invalid arguement error. I am not sure where to go next.
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        It's been a while since I had to troubleshoot a problem like this, but in the past, I think I fired up a browser on the soap client, imported the cert, and tried to access the remote soap server that way. As I remember, this helped me track down cert issues independent of the soap layers. Don't know if it will help in your case. Good luck.
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