EWS request fails because not Internet

Question

I am calling EWS service on internal network which has not access to Internet.

I can open EWS url with browser and verify that it is up an running. But when I try to send the SOAP request.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
       xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" 
       xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" 
       xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Header>
    <t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2007_SP1" />
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <m:GetFolder>
      <m:FolderShape>
        <t:BaseShape>IdOnly</t:BaseShape>
      </m:FolderShape>
      <m:FolderIds>
        <t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="calendar" />
      </m:FolderIds>
    </m:GetFolder>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

It fails with error ENOTFOUD. I am assuming that it can not connect to given address in the SOAP xml for schema definitions.

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

How to deal with this when there is no internet connection.

I am sending request from meteor.js app using lather.js library.

Ola Andersson Ola Andersson · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-26T13:09:21

The stuff that looks like URL:s, prefixed with xmlns, are just name spaces and shall not be called. A bit like namespaces in a java program (for example namespace com.sun.something) is not an url you can call.

You should just do a http POST and send the entire xml file to the soap server, which can be an internal ip number that is not on the internet.

EWS request fails because not Internet

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