How to do a SOAP wsdl web services call from the command line

Question

I need to make a SOAP webservice call to https://sandbox.mediamind.com/Eyeblaster.MediaMind.API/V2/AuthenticationService.svc?wsdl and to use the operation ClientLogin while passing through the parameters: ApplicationKey, Password, and UserName. The response is UserSecurityToken. They are all strings.

Here is the link fully explaining what I am trying to do: https://sandbox.mediamind.com/Eyeblaster.MediaMind.API.Doc/?v=3

How can I do this on the command line? (Windows and/or Linux would be helpful)

Answer 1

It's a standard, ordinary SOAP web service. SSH has nothing to do here. I just called it with curl (one-liner):

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/xml" \
    -H 'SOAPAction: "http://api.eyeblaster.com/IAuthenticationService/ClientLogin"' \
    --data-binary @request.xml \
    https://sandbox.mediamind.com/Eyeblaster.MediaMind.API/V2/AuthenticationService.svc

Where request.xml file has the following contents:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:api="http://api.eyeblaster.com/">
           <soapenv:Header/>
           <soapenv:Body>
              <api:ClientLogin>
                 <api:username>user</api:username>
                 <api:password>password</api:password>
                 <api:applicationKey>key</api:applicationKey>
              </api:ClientLogin>
          </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I get this beautiful 500:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Body>
    <s:Fault>
      <faultcode>s:Security.Authentication.UserPassIncorrect</faultcode>
      <faultstring xml:lang="en-US">The username, password or application key is incorrect.</faultstring>
    </s:Fault>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Have you tried soapui?

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