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Comment on About me by Ian King

Ian King — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:33:53 +0000

I think I remember you…. I co-located a server at Coventry with Oaktree for a couple of years or more. I still have the hardware for that server… it is collecting dust in the loft. My company still hasn’t got any bigger though. Pleased things went well for you after Coventry.
Best Regards… Ian

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by Carswell

Carswell — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:14:32 +0000

Thanks for a *profoundly* helpful post.
FYI,
I was plagued by the 401 auth error when we moved to a SP server using SSL … this fixed it for me:
my @credentials = (
q{as in the article},
q{my www basic auth domain},
q{my password, with the DOMAIN\ prefix},
q{my password},
);

In other words … I couldn’t auth with the www auth domain field in @credentials set to ” … I had to fill it in.

you can get the auth domain by looking at the debug/trace information from LWP … it’s in the HTTP response.

(Note that this is not, strictly speaking, HTTPS related … it’s related to the configuration of HTTP authentication)

Comment on Bad English by Ed Ahlsen-Girard

Ed Ahlsen-Girard — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:17:54 +0000

Lend is a verb. Loan is not a verb.

If you lay down, I shall wonder either where you put those goose feathers, or who this Down character is and whether Down is male or female.

Adjectives describe the qualities of an object. Adverbs describe the qualities of an action.

The conditinoal and subjunctive convey meaning, and it were better had we all learned to use them.

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by Hugo

Hugo — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:25:00 +0000

Hello,

after 1 hour trying i found my failure
…i forgott to add “/_vti_bin/lists.asmx” to the normal sharepoint-website link (ending to the sites name)

many thx@all for this site

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by KGifford

KGifford — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:47:42 +0000

Update for better error handling.

In calling function:
eval {
&sendFormSP( \%data );
};

if ($@) {
if ( substr( $@, 0, 3 ) == 401 ) {
$msg = “Incorrect password for $username.”;
}
else {
$msg = “Error: $@”;
}
}

In subroutine change following:
quit(1, $lists->faultstring()) if defined $lists->fault();
to
die $lists->faultstring() if defined $lists->fault();

quit(1, $call->faultstring()) if defined $call->fault();
to
die $call->faultstring() if defined $call->fault();

return undef;
to
die “List does not exist.”;

If anyone is working on this and has questions please post here or email.

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by KGifford

KGifford — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:02:12 +0000

I have this working to send form data to a SharePoint list. It is actually cached form data stored in xml for an offline client, but would be the same for a live scenario.

I am using ActivePerl 5.10.1.1007

I used ppm to install the following packages
SOAP::Lite
NTLM
LWP

I then created a subroutine, called as follows with a hash of the name->value form data:

&sendFormSP(\%data);

In the subroutine the form data is loaded as follows:

my $params = shift;
my %data = %$params;

Then I create dynamic SOAP variables for each of the fields and load onto an array:

my @fieldvars = ();

foreach my $k (keys (%data)){
${’field_’ . $k} = SOAP::Data->name(’Field’, $data{$k})->attr({ Name => $k });
push(@fieldvars, ${’field_’ . $k});
}

Finally the $method SOAP variable is assigned as follows.

my $method = name(’Method’=> \@fieldvars)->attr({ ID => “anything”, Cmd => ‘New’});

And then the final few lines of code same as in the original post.

If anyone has any code to share please do so.

Thanks,
K

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by Mig10

Mig10 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:53:56 +0000

Thank you, this is very useful.

My SharePoint is using HTTPS, so I had to change the the $sp_domain value to “my_domain.com:443″, and it worked well.

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by InvoiceGuy

InvoiceGuy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:16:25 +0000

I got this to work! As an old Perl hacker transformed into SharePoint hacker, I’m thrilled at the new(old) possibities. The .NET guys think I’m crazy, but I think the same about them.

Doing more with less,

@InvoiceGuy

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by Tomek

Tomek — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:18:37 +0000

thnk you so much for all these tips! Unfortunately I didnt read comments carefully and I lost 2 days to investigate below bug with Authen::NTLM

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=9521

Comment on Talking to Sharepoint Lists with Perl by John

John — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:23:40 +0000

Just a note: I hacked for literally a day on this, getting the 401 error issue, until I changed the following line:

my @credentials = ($sp_domain, “”, $sp_endpoint, $sp_password);

my @credentials = ($sp_domain, “”, $sp_username, $sp_password);

Now it works great!