WebServicesCore problem

[Graham J Lee]

Hi, I'm trying to connect to an XML-RPC service using WebServicesCore  
in synchronous mode (actually, I'm just trying to get it to connect  
to see whether I understand the documentation, the specific way I  
invoke it will change over time).  The code I have below fails, but  
with no reason in the kWSFaultString, which the docs say *will* be  
set on failure.  :-(

One thing which may affect the behaviour of WSCore is that the  
connection is over SSL (on a nonstandard port, too), and that the  
certificate is self-signed.  Is there a way to get WSCore to ignore  
the certificate?

Thanks,

Graham.

> #include <CoreServices/CoreServices.h>
>
> int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
>     // insert code here...
>     CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateWithString(NULL,CFSTR("https://server: 
> 1234/XMLRPC"),NULL);
>     CFStringRef method = CFSTR("Service.Method");
>     WSMethodInvocationRef inv = WSMethodInvocationCreate 
> (url,method,kWSXMLRPCProtocol);
>
>     // add the service ID and password to the parameters
>     int sid = 123;
>     CFNumberRef serviceID = CFNumberCreate 
> (NULL,kCFNumberIntType,&sid);
>     CFStringRef pw = CFSTR("likeiwouldpostthattoamailinglist;-)");
>
>     CFMutableArrayRef order = CFArrayCreateMutable(NULL,2,NULL);
>     CFMutableDictionaryRef params = CFDictionaryCreateMutable(NULL, 
> 2,NULL,NULL);
>
>     CFDictionaryAddValue(params,CFSTR("Service"),serviceID);
>     CFDictionaryAddValue(params,CFSTR("Password"),pw);
>
>     CFArrayAppendValue(order, CFSTR("Service"));
>     CFArrayAppendValue(order, CFSTR("Password"));
>
>     WSMethodInvocationSetParameters(inv,params,order);
>     //right, should be able to invoke the method now
>
>     CFDictionaryRef result = WSMethodInvocationInvoke(inv);
>
>     CFStringRef returnStr;
>     //let's see if that worked
>     if(WSMethodResultIsFault(result))
>     {
>       printf("Didn't work.\n");
>       returnStr = CFDictionaryGetValue(result, kWSFaultString);
>       printf("Fault: %s\n",CFStringGetCStringPtr 
> (returnStr,kCFStringEncodingUTF8));
>     }
>     else
>     {
>       printf("Worked!\n");
>       returnStr = CFDictionaryGetValue(result,  
> kWSMethodInvocationResult);
>       printf("%s\n",CFStringGetCStringPtr 
> (returnStr,kCFStringEncodingUTF8));
>     }
>
>     return 0;
> }
>