Help with POSTing a request

[Darryl Strong]

Hi All,

I am new to this so I apologise in advance if this has been covered before but I cannot find any examples.

Trying to do a POST request in Postman using this URL:

https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/wsdl.aspx

and this raw body data:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:typ="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2013-11-28/Token/types" xmlns:ldb="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2016-02-16/ldb/">

   <soap:Header>

   <ns0:AccessToken xmlns:ns0="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2013-11-28/Token/types"><ns0:TokenValue>MYTOKEN</ns0:TokenValue></ns0:AccessToken>

        </soap:Header>

   <soap:Body>

      <ldb:GetDepartureBoardRequest>

         <ldb:numRows>2</ldb:numRows>

         <ldb:crs>SOU</ldb:crs>

         <ldb:filterCrs></ldb:filterCrs>

         <ldb:filterType>to</ldb:filterType>

         <ldb:timeOffset>0</ldb:timeOffset>

         <ldb:timeWindow>120</ldb:timeWindow>

      </ldb:GetDepartureBoardRequest>

   </soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

The data I receive is this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" xmlns:tns="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2017-10-01/ldb/" targetNamespace="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2017-10-01/ldb/">

    <wsdl:import namespace="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2017-10-01/ldb/" location="rtti_2017-10-01_ldb.wsdl" />

    <wsdl:service name="ldb">

        <wsdl:port name="LDBServiceSoap" binding="tns:LDBServiceSoap">

            <soap:address location="https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/ldb11.asmx" />

        </wsdl:port>

        <wsdl:port name="LDBServiceSoap12" binding="tns:LDBServiceSoap12">

            <soap12:address location="https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/ldb11.asmx" />

        </wsdl:port>

    </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions>

I cannot see where I am going wrong.  Can anyone shed some light please?

Cheers

Darryl

[Peter Hicks]

Hi Darryl

On 1 Oct 2021, at 11:48, 'Darryl Strong' via A gathering place for the Open Rail Data community <openrail...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Trying to do a POST request in Postman using this URL:

https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/wsdl.aspx

I think that’s the issue - you’re POST-ing the request to the WSDL - the actual API definition URL, not the SOAP endpoint at https://lite.realtime.nationalrail.co.uk/OpenLDBWS/ldb11.asmx, which is referenced in the WSDL!

Peter

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[Darryl Strong]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for the fast response. Testing using the SOAP endpoint and I get this...

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>

<title>401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.</title>

<style type="text/css">

Do I need a username/password?

Darryl

[RailAleFan]

Hi Darryl,

You don't need any other credentials than your access token but I'm not sure the soap header is correct having re-declared the typ namespace as ns0 within the element itself, have a go with:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:typ="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2013-11-28/Token/types" xmlns:ldb="http://thalesgroup.com/RTTI/2016-02-16/ldb/">
   <soap:Header>

     <typ:AccessToken><typ:TokenValue>MYTOKEN</typ:TokenValue></typ:AccessToken>

   </soap:Header>
   <soap:Body>
      <ldb:GetDepartureBoardRequest>
         <ldb:numRows>2</ldb:numRows>
         <ldb:crs>SOU</ldb:crs>
         <ldb:filterCrs></ldb:filterCrs>
         <ldb:filterType>to</ldb:filterType>
         <ldb:timeOffset>0</ldb:timeOffset>
         <ldb:timeWindow>120</ldb:timeWindow>
      </ldb:GetDepartureBoardRequest>
   </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Hope this helps!
Cheers

[Darryl Strong]

I shall give that a go Monday when back in the office, thank you :)

[Darryl Strong]

Sorted! Thanks Chaps.