SOAP request error: 500 Connect failed

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

O'holy and absolutely beloved ones. Greetings

Apologies if this is not ethical

I have installed the ViPerl module successfully, however when I set the installation with this script

#! c:/perl/bin/perl.exe

use Strict;
use Warnings;

use VMware::VIRuntime;

my $service_url = 'https://localhost/sdk/vimService';
my $userid ='administrator';
my $password ='password';

Vim::login(service_url => $service_url, user_name => $userid, password
+ => $password);
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However I got this error msg back

C:\VMware API Download\Scripts>TEST_VI.PL
SOAP request error: 500 Connect failed: connect: Unknown error; Unknow
+n error
 at C:/Perl/site/lib/VMware/VIStub.pm line 166
        SoapClient::request('SoapClient=HASH(0x372de78)', 'RetrieveSer
+viceConten
t', '<_this type="ServiceInstance">ServiceInstance</_this>\x{a}') call
+ed at C:/P
erl/site/lib/VMware/VIStub.pm line 26565
        VimService::RetrieveServiceContent('VimService=HASH(0x2168e8)'
+, '_this',
 'ManagedObjectReference=HASH(0x370a004)') called at C:/Perl/site/lib/
+VMware/VIR
untime.pm line 44
        Vim::login('service_url', 'https://localhost/sdk/vimService', 
+'user_name
', 'administrator', 'password', 'password') called at C:\VMware API Do
+wnload\Scr
ipts\test_vi.pl line 17
C:\VMware API Download\Scripts>
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Not sure what is causing this since every prerequisites have been installed!

Thanks in advance for your help

Blackadder

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Re: SOAP request error: 500 Connect failed by jhourcle (Prior) on Apr 18, 2007 at 12:16 UTC
Not sure what is causing this since every prerequisites have been installed! It likely has nothing to do with the modules installed. Typically in this context, 500 is an HTTP 500 error -- which means, the webserver you're connecting to threw an error. You should look at the webserver's error logs. In your particular case, it also specifically says '500 connect failed', which may mean that the SOAP client wasn't able to connect to the webserver. You should also make sure that the URL you're trying actually works. (and because you're using a service, make sure that you can get to the proxy that's mentioned in the WSDL, too)	[reply]
Re^2: SOAP request error: 500 Connect failed by blackadder (Hermit) on Apr 18, 2007 at 13:52 UTC
Thanks, just wanted to make sure... Blackadder	[reply]