SOAP is complicated. Conventional tools for parsing and generating SOAP
transactions are not simple.

However, you might try creating a web service using the tools in Visual
Studio, or similar ones for Linux. Then Wireshark the packets that go back
and forth to see what they look like. Finally, write a simplified parser to
interpret the request and a ~DynamicFields~ stuffer to build the response
from the appropriate static content.

ALSO: Does the Microchip stack really support HTTPS? It would be a bit
surprising if it did since it requires quite a bit of supporting stuff
(encryption, etc.)

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Harold Hallikainen
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2013 11:34 AM
To: Pic List
Subject: [PIC] Web Services?

I have a product with a web interface done with a PIC32. It also has a TCP
interface. One customer wrote custom software to poll thousands of these
devices over TCP. Smaller operations are using the web interface to manuall=
y
read the results. A customer is now asking for our device to post the
results over HTTPS using a web services type interface (XML, SOAP, and all
those other alphabet soups).

Can anyone point to resources on this? So far I've only done HTTP server an=
d
client on the PIC32, not HTTPS. I think the Microchip code supports a web
server using HTTPS. How about a client? Can this sort of thing just be a
post of content using Microchip's ~DynamicFields~ in a static XML form?

Read any good books on this?

THANKS!

Harold



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