BizTalk 2006 - consuming web service using HTTPS without client-side certificate
I am sending messages to a client's web service using HTTP transport over a dynamic send port - this works fine. Now I need to move to a secure (HTTPS) transport.
When I specify HTTPS as the transport in the Microsoft.XLANGs.BaseTypes.Address, the adapter does not promote the SOAP envelope properties to the message context (probably because HTTPS is not a recognized transport-type).
The Core Documentation directs to use the HTTP transport type and the presence of a certificate will trigger the adapter to automatically switch to HTTPS - but my client does not use client-side certificates.
How can I direct the send port/adapter to use HTTPS when we are not using certificates ?
Thanks.
Jon,
We are running the current production BizTalk Server 2006 (not R2).
The only thing I see in the event log is the "Internal Server Error 500" returned from my partner's host. When they turned-logging, the SOAP header was not correct (did not have proper value for SOAPAction etc. When I look at context for message sent to HTTP://xyz.com, it has all SOAP envelope properties. When I change the send address to https://xyz.com, those properties are not present.
When I use a static send port, it works with no certificate if i specify transporttype = SOAP and the url= https://xyz.com, but I don't know how to do this with dynamic send port there is not a separate transport-type property to set in expression-shape. I tried soap://https://xyz.com, and that failed miserably.
Check the documentation index under HTTP -> Client Certificates. That is about the closest I could find. I also tried Google, not a whole lot there, but that was where i got the idea to try static port with Soap transport and https:// as url.
Where do you want me to send the log and the trace? I do not see a way to attach them to this post.
Thanks,
As long as the files aren't huge, you can send the log / traces to my e-mail account: joncole at microsoft dot com. If they are big, then you will need to post them on a website or ftp server, then send me a link.
Also, can you send me the code you have in your expression shape where you are trying to setup the dynamic send?
Jon,
Upon further testing, I found that the orchestration was routing my message to a send port which was not created with the WebReference-type. This is a straight (one way) send port designed for file transport, msmq, etc.
When I fixed the error in the orchestration and sent the message to the correct (web-typed) port, the HTTPS in the transport worked correctly and sent a valid message to my partner using SSL.
Thanks for your help.
