Hi !

I'm working on a new webservice in VFP9 to send claims to a clearinghouse. Done

webservices with insurance companies before and it was a piece of cake

using westwind connection since everything was adding parameters to the

oSoap, sending the request and receiving a response. But this time I need a Webservices/Webconnection

expert cause can't figure out a section which says AuthenticationHeader which goes at the

beginning of the request and I know is the username and password part but

haven't found a way to send this before the other parameters. They send me a

code sample as follows:

**********************************TEST*CODE****************************************

Dim proxy As New svcServiceReference.EdiFileTransferSoapClient()

Dim AuthenticationHeader As svcServiceReference.AuthenticationHeader

AuthenticationHeader = New svcServiceReference.AuthenticationHeader

AuthenticationHeader.Username = "Username1"

AuthenticationHeader.Password = "Password1"

'file

Dim file As New svcServiceReference.EdiFile

file.FileName = "testfile"

Dim strFilePath = "C:\yourfiles\yourfile.txt"

Dim strBody = ""

Dim rdr As New StreamReader(strFilePath)

strBody = rdr.ReadToEnd()

rdr.Close()

file.FileBody = New String() {strBody}

file.RowDelimiter = "~"

Dim response As New svcServiceReference.Result

'Dim liMsgIDs As New List(Of String)

'liMsgIDs.Add("1")

'liMsgIDs.Add("2")

'liMsgIDs.Add("3")

'Dim strMsgIDs As String()

'strMsgIDs = liMsgIDs.ToArray()

'response = proxy.MarkFilesAsDownloaded(AuthenticationHeader, strMsgIDs)

'file.FileType = "837FILE"

'response = proxy.SendCustomFile(AuthenticationHeader, file)

response = proxy.SendX12File(AuthenticationHeader, file.FileName, file.FileBody(0), file.FileDate, True)

Tried using the Header in oHTTP and all the techniques regarding complex parameters in the help files but receive the same response "Unable to Authenticate" and right now trying RawXML for this section as follows:

oHTTP = CREATE("wwHTTP")

oHTTP.nConnectTimeout = 360

oSOAP = CREATE("wwSOAP")

oSOAP.oHTTP = oHTTP

lcRequest = "<AuthenticationHeader>" + ;

lcUserPassword + ;

"</AuthenticationHeader>"

oSOAP.AddParameter("AuthenticationHeader", lcRequest, "RawXML")

oSOAP.AddParameter("Filename", lcFile)

oSOAP.AddParameter("Body", lcFileBody)

oSOAP.AddParameter("FileDate", lcFileDate)

lcStringXML = oSOAP.CallWSDLMethod("SendX12File", lcURL)

I ran out of ideas, Is there any guru out there that may help me figure out the Authentication Header section?

Regards,

AiR

Aida I. Rivera-Ben

Try posting on west-wind.com on the threads section.

John Harvey

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air@abac.com wrote:

> John:

>

> Thanks to the excellent suggestion!

>

> Just post it on the West-Wind Threads section and hope to

> find the answer soon since I know they did this extremely

> hard on purpose to have the competitive advantage and

> pirate our clients before we can figure it out.

Hi Aida,

"They"? The clearinghouse competes with you? Or their "security vendor"

does?

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Pete:

Unfortunately this clearinghouse (which is the only one here now)

strangle and took off the market the other clearinghouses and

bought three of the largest medical software companies. So they now

compete directly with us the smaller software companies (less than

2000 hundred clients). Our clients must use their services (there is no

other option) the majority of the local insurance companies receive

exclusively through them.

They have a software marketing display in all the web pages with all the

features that our clients see each and every time we enter their website,

even though

they told us they won't do this in our last meeting, 8 months ago. I bet

you anything that

very soon they will display this particular feature on their software

marketing campaign,

and our clients will begin to ask us for this, right now we are sending

using a small communications software that they provide for free, but once

they

have sending directly from their programs running on their clients, they

could easily

pull the plug on the communications program and leave us behind. The only

thing that

keep us small companies going is to have the features and all new EDI

changes before them.

So what else could it be?

Regards,

AiR

Aida I. Rivera-Ben

oops, sorry, I have a typo here is less than 200 clients.

AiR

Aida I. Rivera-Ben

air@abac.com wrote:

> Pete:

>

> Unfortunately this clearinghouse (which is the only one here now)

> strangle and took off the market the other clearinghouses and

> bought three of the largest medical software companies.

Hi Aida,

Is Puerto Rico not subject to US law? This is anti-competitive behavior

which may violate the Sherman and Clayton acts.

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It looks like you are trying to use SOAP. Is that what they are using? I haven't seen SOAP used in new projects in a

while.

If you are sending ANSI X.12 transactions sets such as the 837 they may want something like the code below. It could be

used for sending text files of any size.

We did a credit card project with Global Payments that used a different authentication format than shown below.

What is the name of the clearinghouse? What is the name of the payer? (Medicare/medicaid?)

pcUsername = "username"

pcPassword = "password"

tcMessage = your file

pc_URL = https://www.clearinghouse.com

Try

Local loHTTP As MSXML3.ServerXMLHTTP

loHTTP = Createobject('MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.6.0')

loHTTP.SetTimeouts(600000,600000,600000,600000)

With loHTTP

.Open('POST', pc_URL, .F., pcUsername, pcPassword )

.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","text/xml")

.Send(tcMessage)

----- Original Message -----

From: <air@abac.com>

To: "Profox List" <profox@leafe.com>

Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 8:08 AM

Subject: Webservices Authentication Header

Hi !

I'm working on a new webservice in VFP9 to send claims to a clearinghouse. Done

webservices with insurance companies before and it was a piece of cake

using westwind connection since everything was adding parameters to the

oSoap, sending the request and receiving a response. But this time I need a Webservices/Webconnection

expert cause can't figure out a section which says AuthenticationHeader which goes at the

beginning of the request and I know is the username and password part but

haven't found a way to send this before the other parameters. They send me a

code sample as follows:

**********************************TEST*CODE****************************************

Dim proxy As New svcServiceReference.EdiFileTransferSoapClient()

Dim AuthenticationHeader As svcServiceReference.AuthenticationHeader

AuthenticationHeader = New svcServiceReference.AuthenticationHeader

AuthenticationHeader.Username = "Username1"

AuthenticationHeader.Password = "Password1"

'file

Dim file As New svcServiceReference.EdiFile

file.FileName = "testfile"

Dim strFilePath = "C:\yourfiles\yourfile.txt"

Dim strBody = ""

Dim rdr As New StreamReader(strFilePath)

strBody = rdr.ReadToEnd()

rdr.Close()

file.FileBody = New String() {strBody}

file.RowDelimiter = "~"

Dim response As New svcServiceReference.Result

'Dim liMsgIDs As New List(Of String)

'liMsgIDs.Add("1")

'liMsgIDs.Add("2")

'liMsgIDs.Add("3")

'Dim strMsgIDs As String()

'strMsgIDs = liMsgIDs.ToArray()

'response = proxy.MarkFilesAsDownloaded(AuthenticationHeader, strMsgIDs)

'file.FileType = "837FILE"

'response = proxy.SendCustomFile(AuthenticationHeader, file)

response = proxy.SendX12File(AuthenticationHeader, file.FileName, file.FileBody(0), file.FileDate, True)

Tried using the Header in oHTTP and all the techniques regarding complex parameters in the help files but receive the

same response "Unable to Authenticate" and right now trying RawXML for this section as follows:

oHTTP = CREATE("wwHTTP")

oHTTP.nConnectTimeout = 360

oSOAP = CREATE("wwSOAP")

oSOAP.oHTTP = oHTTP

lcRequest = "<AuthenticationHeader>" + ;

lcUserPassword + ;

"</AuthenticationHeader>"

oSOAP.AddParameter("AuthenticationHeader", lcRequest, "RawXML")

oSOAP.AddParameter("Filename", lcFile)

oSOAP.AddParameter("Body", lcFileBody)

oSOAP.AddParameter("FileDate", lcFileDate)

lcStringXML = oSOAP.CallWSDLMethod("SendX12File", lcURL)

I ran out of ideas, Is there any guru out there that may help me figure out the Authentication Header section?

Regards,

AiR

Aida I. Rivera-Ben

The medical billing software market has thousands of players so buying 3 would not be a monopoly or anti-competitive. It

would simply be a way of getting into the business. This market is overdue for a wash out, but I have been saying that

for many years.

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Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 11:20 AM

Subject: Re: Webservices Authentication Header

air@abac.com wrote:

> Pete:

>

> Unfortunately this clearinghouse (which is the only one here now)

> strangle and took off the market the other clearinghouses and

> bought three of the largest medical software companies.

Hi Aida,

Is Puerto Rico not subject to US law? This is anti-competitive behavior

which may violate the Sherman and Clayton acts.

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Pete

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I've got a new project, working with the State of TN, which uses SOAP. I am

using an open source tool for testing http://www.soapui.org/ . It might help

in this situation too.

John Harvey

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kamcginnis@gmail.com wrote:

> The medical billing software market has thousands of players so buying 3 would not be a monopoly or anti-competitive. It

> would simply be a way of getting into the business. This market is overdue for a wash out, but I have been saying that

> for many years.

Hi Kam,

The software companies are one thing, but the "one" clearinghouse for

all of Puerto Rico should be a concern. Now that the clearinghouse is

also trying to force out the software companies, - well, that is a

little too Micro$oft.

>> Unfortunately this clearinghouse (which is the only one here now)

>> strangle and took off the market the other clearinghouses and

>> bought three of the largest medical software companies.

> Is Puerto Rico not subject to US law? This is anti-competitive behavior

> which may violate the Sherman and Clayton acts.

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