rinse 0.5.0

Description:

rinse 0.5.0

Rinse is a Python SOAP client using lxml, requests and defusedxml.





Rinse works with both Python 2 and Python 3. Continuous integration
testing is performed against the latest python 2.7, python 3.3 and
python 3.4 releases.
The name “rinse” refers to its dictionary meaning, such as the act of
removing soap suds from something using water.
The goal of rinse is to be a SOAP client that focuses on the minimum set
of features required to make SOAP calls to services over HTTP/HTTPS.
Support for common SOAP extensions including WSA (WS-Addressing) and
WSSE (WS-Security) is provided. Rinse supports the WS-I Basic Profile
Version 2.0 specification in principle, but takes a pragmatic approach
to achieving compliance based upon further goals and constraints
outlined below.
Using rinse as part of a SOAP service (SOAP server) is not supported.
We recommend servers should use JSON for data interchange over RESTful
HTTP(S) rather than providing SOAP services. And we’re not the only
ones - Google announced its plans to abandon SOAP way back in 2009.
Security is improved by using the defusedxml library to parse XML data
thereby minimising risks associated with parsing and processing data
from untrusted sources. TODO: SSL certificate pinning to ensure that
clients using rinse only disclose information to and parse information
from intended servers.
Rinse has support for validating SOAP messages against the schema
specified in XSD (XML schema definition) format within a given WSDL
file, but is not capable of generating SOAP service bindings at runtime.
Future development may provide support for generating bindings from WSDL
in the form of Python source files. Dynamic (runtime) binding is
unlikely to be supported.