cfinvoke Web Services issue

Report · Aug 19, 2018

One of our vendors seems to have changed something on their end and my webservices call has broken. I can't seem to convince the vendor the problem is on their end. Am I wrong?

At this point I'm just trying just a single line:

and it throws this error about white spaces being required:

Cannot generate stub objects for web service invocation.

Name: https://www.h2hdigitalrx.com/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?wsdl. WSDL: https://www.h2hdigitalrx.com/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?wsdl. javax.wsdl.WSDLException: WSDLException (at /definitions/types/xsd:schema[1]): faultCode=PARSER_ERROR: Problem parsing 'http://www.h2hdigitalrx.com:80/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?xsd=1'.: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: White spaces are required between publicId and systemId. It is recommended that you use a web browser to retrieve and examine the requested WSDL document to ensure it is correct. If the requested WSDL document cannot be retrieved or is dynamically generated, it is likely that the target web service has programming errors.

CF11 latest patches, Windows server 2012. Help?

Report · Aug 19, 2018

This is my test link:

https://parknet.parkmedicalcenters.com/z_test.cfm

Report · Aug 19, 2018

I have tested connecting to other webservices/wsdl's and they all work fine. This is specific to this one vendor.

Report · Aug 19, 2018

I have also tried the code

From a second CF server - same problem/error.

Report · Aug 20, 2018

One thought is that it may be related to the SSLv3 issues with CF11 mentioned here:

https://www.coldfusionmuse.com/index.cfm/2014/12/8/colfusion-jvm-versions-sslv3-tls

I've added -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2,TLSv1.1,TLSv1 to my JVM arguments in the CF Administrator, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

Report · Aug 20, 2018

Scratch that, they have verified I am connecting via TLS1.2. Back to the drawing board.

I'm still certain this is something misconfigured with their XML. Is there anyone that can connect to that webservice without an error, using:

Report · Aug 20, 2018

So the error, whittled down, is this (I think)

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: http://www.h2hdigitalrx.com:80/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?xsd=1; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 50; White spaces are required between publicId and systemId.

Could it be a problem with one of the URL's listed?

<xs:schema xmlns:tns="http://services.business.drx.ys.com/" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" version="1.0" targetNamespace="http://services.business.drx.ys.com/"

Report · Aug 20, 2018

Specifically looking for anyone on CF 2018 who can test this line of code for me - would REALLY help!

I'm wondering if an upgrade to 2018 would fix the issue, or if the error is still there.

Report · Aug 20, 2018

I received a reply from Pete Freitag:

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I took a quick look at it... here what I think the problem is... In the WSDL it has this link to load a schema: http://www.h2hdigitalrx.com:80/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?xsd=1

BUT that URL is getting redirected to https, I don't think CF is following the redirect, so it is trying to parse the response of the HTTP request, which is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.h2hdigitalrx.com/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?xsd=1">here</a>.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) Server at www.h2hdigitalrx.com Port 80</address> </body></html>

And ofcourse the Location header is set to redirect the HTTP client to https://www.h2hdigitalrx.com/services/v4/PartnerIntegrationService?xsd=1

So there are probably 4 ways to fix this:

1) Get the service provide to put a HTTPS url in there

2) Report a bug to Adobe (this will take months to fix)

3) Make a local WSDL url that fixes the problem (rewrite http to https)

4) Rewrite your web service calls to just use cfhttp and xml parse

I'd start with #1 since it probably would cause a problem on many web service clients, I'm not sure that Adobe would fix this - they would probably defer to Apache Axis, there might be a reason to not follow redirects.

Report · Aug 20, 2018

I am back up and running. Pete was correct, the problem was with their schema.

I went with solution #3 above, copied their WSDL locally, fixed their http links to https, and everything magically works again. Thank you Pete!!! I owe you at least 3, perhaps 4 drinks.

cfinvoke Web Services issue

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