Excelsius SSRS Gateway not connecting

Question

Hi there,
I am currently evaluating Excelsius 2008 Engage Server, and am trying to use the SSRS Gateway for retrieving data from a SQL Server 2008 Express (with Reporting Services installed as extra). That gateway is not working though.
The Gateway can be tested by going to the xrs.asmx page, which is showing fine. Untill I try to Invoke the GetReports link: I then get the following error:
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <ROOT>
  <Message>Client found response content type of '', but expected 'text/xml'.</Message>
  <StackTrace>at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.ReportingService.ListChildren(String Item, Boolean Recursive) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.CatalogManager.CreateXmlNode(XmlDocument Doc, CatalogItem Item, XmlNode ParentNode) at Microsoft.ReportingServices.CatalogManager.SerializeToXML() at Infommersion.XRS.Service.GetReports()</StackTrace>
  </ROOT>
I as expecting this to be a strange way to report a URL setting problem, but when I change my settings in web.config to an obvious errornous adress, I get expected error-results ("connection refused", etc). So I'm suspecting my config URL settings are correct, but something else is going wrong.
The SQL Server Express is running on the same PC as the gateway(a Win XP Pro running on VMWare), and my URL settings are:
     <appSettings>
          <add key="ReportingServicesUrl" value="http://localhost:8080/ReportServer_SQLEXPRESS" />
          <add key="ReportServerUrl" value="http://localhost:8080/Reports_SQLEXPRESS" />
          <add key="XrsServicesUrl" value="http://localhost/xrs" />
     </appSettings>
Changing localhost to the actuall IP adress, or 127.0.0.1 gives exactly the same result.I also tried all versions of authentication, without any difference.
Both SQL Server Express and SSRS are configured by default, and these URL do work manually. I obviously also simply tried connecting in Xcelsius, but that then just waits indefinately.
Does anybody have any idea what is going wrong, and how to fix this ?
TIA!
Harry

Answer 1

Try replacing 'localhost:8080' with the actual name of the server instead of the IP address. That worked for me.