Jim_Hutson_1022
Apr 11, 2007Nimbostratus
Access iControl Web Services Using MS Soap Toolkit
We have a large ASP (old-school ASP, not ASP.NET) codebase and would like to be able to clear cache entries in the bigip from an existing ASP tool that we have. Is it possible to use Microsoft's Soap Toolkit to access the iControl web services? I'm getting a really weird problem with bad characters in the SOAP response from iControl. I'm not concerned with the actual fault string in this response as we know we'll be able to get through that. I'm specifically concerned with the bogus "1fc" characters at the beginning of the response and the bogus "0" between two close tags near the end of the response. The soap toolkit seems to be especially intolerant of these superfluous characters and I'm not sure how to "pre-process" the raw response so that it can be parsed correctly. Please see the attached request and response. I can attach the soap headers as well if you'd like.
thanks,
jim hutson
director, applications development
pcworld communications