Calling (HTTPS web service) in sharepoint 2013 workflow (SPD)

I am using SharePoint 2013. I have created a list workflow in SharePoint Designer. I know there is an action "Call HTTP Web Service". Is it possible to access some webservice with authentication (username and password)?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn567558%28v=office.15%29.aspx
the OData formats support communication with anonymous web services as well as with those protected by various types of authentication. In short, you have full control over the request and response for each service call. This allows you to use a series of
activities within a workflow to first authenticate using one service and obtain an OAuth token, and then include that token in future requests to services secured using the
OAuth 2.0 protocol.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2009/03/10/calling-sharepoint-lists-web-service-using-wcf.aspx
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
2: <configuration>
3: <system.serviceModel>
4: <bindings>
5: <basicHttpBinding>
6: <binding name="ListsSoap">
7: <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
8: <transport clientCredentialType="Ntlm" />
9: </security>
10: </binding>
11: </basicHttpBinding>
12: </bindings>
13: <client>
14: <endpoint
15: address="http://sharepoint/sites/HSC/_vti_bin/lists.asmx"
16: binding="basicHttpBinding"
17: bindingConfiguration="ListsSoap"
18: contract="ServiceReference1.ListsSoap"
19: name="ListsSoap" />
20: </client>
21: </system.serviceModel>
22: </configuration>http://www.tonytestasworld.com/post/2009/06/04/How-To-Authenticate-and-Use-SharePoint-Web-Services-in-an-FBA-SharePoint-site.aspx

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RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:31:42 GMT"],"Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"WWW-Authenticate":["NTLM"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]}
The HTTP response content could not be read. 'Error while copying content to a stream.'. at Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance
instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor
Members of the SharePoint Group "Team Meetings Members" have Contribute Access to both the form library and another list that the workflow writes to as well as the Workflow History list (which in SP 2013 uses the credentials of the
user who started the workflow, unlike 2010 which used System Account).
All members of the Team Meetings Members group, whether they are individual members or part of one of the AD groups, have no problems opening and saving forms etc. It's just the Workflow that doesn't like them...
I am stumped. I've spent many hours searching for a reason for this. There are about 200 people in the two AD groups so I really don't want to have to add them all individually - especially when these groups are managed in AD for a whole bunch of other reasons
and using the AD groups means I'll basically never have to worry about modifying the SharePoint access permissions.
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening and what I can try to fix it?
Mark

Hi Lars,
I'm afraid not so far but we are trying a few things today so I will post back with results.
First thing we are doing is making the AD Group universal because one of our (external provider) gurus remembers seeing something about that. He also sent me a link to a post where they were talking about earlier
versions but having similar issues and their solution was to make sure the app pool account has sufficient permissions in AD::
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/27a547da-5cc0-49d7-8056-6eb40b4c3242/failed-to-start-workflow-access-is-denied-exception-from-hresult-0x80070005-eaccessdenied
This part of that thread looks interesting but we haven't checked it yet as were trying the universal setting first:
"If the users participating in the workflows have been added to the SharePoint site via Active Directory groups, SharePoint has to update the user’s security token periodically by connecting to
the domain controller. By default, the token times out every 24 hours. But if the application pool account did not have the right permissions on the domain controller to update the user’s token, user will keep getting the access denied error. The error was
intermittent because when the user browsed to any page other than the workflow form, the token was getting updated successfully.
You can try to fix it through granting the application pool account the appropriate permission by adding the account to the group “Windows Authorization Access Group” in Active Directory."
I'll update when we try these ideas. If you have any luck please do the same.
Mark
(sorry about formatting - using my phone....)
Mark

How to Resolve HTTP 500 error in sharepoint 2013 workflow

Hi guys,
I am new to Sharepoint. I have created a workflow for sending if a document added or edited in a document library. When i added a document i
workflow status shows workflow started. But when checked in the internal status of the workflow it shows as cancelled.
RequestorId: 2bfd5ec9-1fd1-de92-ccc2-1f2a912c49ce. Details: System.ApplicationException: HTTP 500 {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore":["0"],"SPClientServiceRequestDuration":["132"],"SPRequestGuid":["2bfd5ec9-1fd1-de92-ccc2-1f2a912c49ce"],"request-id":["2bfd5ec9-1fd1-de92-ccc2-1f2a912c49ce"],"X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4420"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],"X-MS-InvokeApp":["1;
RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Wed, 05 Feb 2014 09:18:43 GMT"],"Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]}
at Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at System.Activities.Runtime.Activit
How to resolve this error. It shows http 500 error.

Go to one of your SharePoint boxes, open op powershell and get teh logs around the "SPRequestGUid" you see in your message... Do something like this:
Merge-SPLogFile -path "Desktop\wferror.log" -correlation 2bfd5ec9-1fd1-de92-ccc2-1f2a912c49ce
This will basically grab log files from all boxes ULS logs that have to do with that transaction.
*** not sure how far back it will look depending on your log size, but sometimes I've had to reproduce another error (with a new SPGuid) and then Merge logs with that Correlation...
Once you get this file, you can open it with ULSViewer and then you can filter/sort by Product/Category/ErrorLevel/etc... this will definitely help you determine what the issue is. The key is that SPRequestGuid (which is the "Correlation ID"
that you see when you get SharePoint Unexpected errors to reference the log files...

Call Exchange Web Services from SP2013 Workflow

Okay... so I would love to be able to call exchange.asmx to issue an "ExpandDL" request to get the members of a particular distribution list, but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to actually make that happen or how to make any code
examples I find fit into the "Call HTTP Web Service" action format inside SPD. Ideas?

Hi ramz,
Based on the following similar post and article, SharePoint Designer 2013 platform workflow activity "Call HTTP Web Service" can't use the SOAP web service provided by Exchange(e.g. exchnage.asmx), we could only use the RESTful web service.
http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/68905/how-to-call-a-soap-webservice-with-the-call-http-service-action-in-a-workflow
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/2be5a47c-4574-4a27-a480-dabb5c0794b5/soap-webservice-using-sharepoint-designer-2013?forum=sharepointgeneral
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dn789003(v=exchg.150).aspx
Thanks
Daniel Yang
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