This is related to my last post. I was finally able to communicate to an SSL-enabled SOAP service with my computer behind a proxy but then ran into another problem: certificate-based authentication.

Suds actually doesn’t support certificate authentication directly, but fortunately someone created a custom transport for it here.

I tried his code but then ran into connection issues again, I had to modify it a little bit to include the proxy settings …

I’m writing a small Python program to connect to a SOAP-based web service using Suds and just ran into an issue with authenticating to our proxy server. I’m able to connect fine if the web service runs on http, but the web service we need to connect to uses https and the urllib2 module threw an error:

urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 407 Proxy Authentication Required>

The solution in my case is to upgrade …

Over the weekend, I had to do a new build of the mod_xsendfile module since I put a custom fix for the issue I was having. As it turns out, however, compiling Apache modules on Windows is not very straightforward at all (Linux, on the other hand, you just simply type apxs2 -cia some_apache_module.c).

After lots of Googling and trying different approaches, I finally got it to work by doing the following using …

Error Message:

(70008) Partial results are valid but processing is incomplete: xsendfile: unable to stat file: //server_name/folder/file

I deployed my code to our development box over the weekend which uses the X-Sendfile module for Apache to serve files but ran into this issue when I tried to download a file. The X-Sendfile module worked fine on my local machine. The only difference I could find was our development box was running Windows XP 64-bit and …

Back to Java coding!

We have a Java application that calls an external application and since it gets called quite often we figured we should probably log its standard output and standard error streams to a separate log file so we could easily locate issues with it later. This would also allow us to create a different message format for it and different handlers.

Luckily, it turned out that this is pretty easy to do …