"Request on loopback from external IP" using Mockoon - rest

I'm not sure if this question must be moved in ServerFault, because I have some troubles to test my REST API using Mockoon (https://mockoon.com/) and it don't look like a programming problem.
I send a REST call with Postman (GET /my/path/to/test) to my application.
In production, my application manage the request and forward the data to an external endpoint.
In local development, my application forward the data to my Mocknoon,that respond with 500 and a body
{
"code":"an errore code " ,
"message":"an error message"
}
If I test my call in locale environment, I receive this error:
HTTP Status 400 ("<HEAD><TITLE>Request on loopback from external IP</TITLE></HEAD><BODY
BGCOLOR=\"white\" FGCOLOR=\"black\"><H1>Request on loopback from external IP</H1><HR><FONT
FACE=\"Helvetica,Arial\"><B>Description: Your request is prohibited because the request is on
loopback from external IP.</B></FONT><HR><!-- default \"Request on loopback from external IP\"
response (400) --></BODY>)
Mocknoon doesn't show anything in the "Log" tab.
But, if I copy and past my URL in the browser and I execute the GET, I see the HTTP Status 200 and the expected body
{
"code":"an errore code " ,
"message":"an error message"
}
and the "Log" tab show the request and the response.
The Proxy of Postamn bypass localhost and 127.0.0.1 in both the situations.
My colleagues suggest me that the bind of Java resolves a different IP than 127.0.0.1 and I have to reset the IP address of my workstation with ipconfig, but they have no my error and I think it's a over-the-top solution and maybe there's a simpler alternative.
Do you have any suggestions?

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How to connect to a SVC endpoint?

Given a URL that ends with .svc and that is supposed to run a SOAP web service, how can I get some data from it?
I tried:
to access it via a web browser
to access it via the Python's library Zeep
to access it via the Microsoft utilitary svcutil.exe
In all cases, I get a timeout error:
Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time.
Does it mean that the web service does not work, or that I do things the wrong way?
Importantly - there is a big distinction between "service not active" (and by that I mean no listener on port 80), and "port not open in firewall".
If the problem were simply that you didn't have a service listening on port 80, you would have gotten something like "connection reset" or "connection rejected" as an error.
Instead, you appear to have gotten a timeout, which implies that either the SYN from the client doesn't reach the server, or the SYN/ACK from the server doesn't reach the client. [ You could verify this by doing a packet capture for port 80 on both client and server ]
I would be tempted to check any firewall in front of the server to see that it's letting port 80 traffic through from your client.
Diagnosing Connectivity Issues
Without more details it is difficult to say, but given your timeout error:
Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time.
This indicates a network connectivity error at the TCP level, so it is likely web service is not active on the port your are using (default of 80 for http, 443 for https).
In a comment you said you pinged the URL and it responded normally - I assume this means you pinged the hostname. If this is responding normally it means the server is active, but that doesn't tell you anything about the availability of the web service on that server.
telnet %hostname% %port%
where %port% is 80 for http or 443 for https, or something else if there is a port number in the URL you are using (e.g. http://somehost.somewhere.com:port/path.scv)
If ping works and telnet does not connect, then the service is not active.
I suspect this is the case. If the service was active and it was simply that you requesting the data incorrectly, I believe you'd get a different error message - e.g. a valid HTTP response with status code 500 or 404 or similar.
Getting Data from a Web Service
As to your original question as to how to get data from it - once you verify that the service is active, the method to get the data will depend on the specification of the service - i.e.:
which HTTP methods (GET, POST, etc.) does it support
what parameters it requires
what format it requires the parameters in
are the parameters in the query string or POST body.
To interact with a web service there are many command line tools that can be used, as well as the options you have tried, including:
POSTMan Google Chrome Plugin
curl
wget
In windows Powershell, the Invoke-WebRequest
Getting Data from a SOAP Web Service
As you have said it is a SOAP web service, if you have the URL for the wsdl, you can often interract with it using Powershell SOAP WebService Proxies.
The wsdl location varies, but is often at a URL that looks something like.
http://host/path.svc?wsdl
http://host/path.svc/?wsdl
http://host/path/?wsdl
Also if it's configured correctly, just loading the URL in a browser will present a page with a link to the wsdl.
The general idea is:
$URI="http://hostname/path.svc?wsdl"
$Proxy = New-WebserviceProxy $URI –Namespace X
$Proxy | get-member -MemberType Method
This will return a list of methods on the proxy that you can invoke as powershell methods. Any types defined in the wsdl that are needed for arguments, or returned from methods will be available within the namespace X. Invoking the methods will proxy the request to the service, taking care of serializing parameters and serializing results into powershell objects.

How to send HTTP Commands through Port 80

Breif Description of what I am trying to accomplish. So I am working with Crestrons Simpl+ software. My job is to create a module for a sound masking system called QT Pro. Now, QT Pro has an API where you can control it via HTTP. I need a way to establish a connection with the QT Pro via HTTP( I have everything I need, IP, Username, Password).
Whats the problem? I have just started working with this language. Unfortunately there isn't as much documentation as I would like, otherwise I wouldn't be here. I know I need to create a socket connection via TCP on port 80. I just don't know what I'm supposed to send through it.
Here is an example:
http://username:password#address/cmd.htm?cmd=setOneZoneData&ZN=Value&mD=Value
&mN=Value&auxA=Value&auxB=Value&autoR=Value
If I were to put this into the URL box, and fill it in correctly. then it would change the values that I specify. Am I supposed to send the entire thing? Or just after cmd.htm? Or is there some other way I'm supposed to send data? I'd like to stay away from the TCP/IP Module so I can keep this all within the same module.
Thanks.
You send
GET /cmd.htm?cmd=setOneZoneData&ZN=Value&mD=Value&mN=Value&auxA=Value&auxB=Value&autoR=Value HTTP/1.1
Host: address
Connection: close
(End with a couple of newlines.)
If you need to use HTTP basic authentication, then also include a header like
Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
where the gibberish is the base64-encoded version of username:password.
But surely there is some mechanism for opening HTTP connections already there for you? Just blindly throwing out headers like this and hoping the response is what you expect is not robust, to say the least.
To see what is going on with your requests and responses, a great tool is netcat (or telnet, for that matter.)
Do nc address 80 to connect to server address on port 80, then paste your HTTP request:
GET /cmd.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: address
Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
Connection: close
and see what comes back. SOMETHING should come back. (Remember to terminate with two newlines.)
To see what requests your browser is sending when you do something that works, you can listen like this: nc -l -p 8080.
Then direct your browser to localhost:8080 with the rest of the URL as before, and you'll see the request that was sent. (Then you can type back to see how the browser handles the response.)

Connect to C++ REST sdk SERVER on Windows from LAN

I have a server written on C++ REST SDK.
There's http_listener which listens to "http://localhost:34568".
When I try to send a request in browser or from the client to localhost it works fine and I get the responses from my server. But the point is to use the application in network. And here where the problem comes.
When I try to request the server from the other PC using IP(192.168.1.103:34568) I get "HTTP Error 400. The request hostname is invalid."
I'm aware that that could be some firewall issues but it's turned off. Also I tried to set port rules in brandmauer and it didn't help.
And even more! I got XAMPP running Apache server and when I do the same thing but with (192.168.1.103:80) I do get the response from Apache and have an access.
Anybody had something similar or somebody knows what the problem is about?
Listen to local ip address or to your network name (dns):
"http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:34568" or
"http://your_network_name:34568"
So, if you have multiple network adapters, you can choose which one.

MS Exchange IMAP login returns "BAD Command recieved in Invalid state"

I have an IMAP client (Perl, Mail::IMAPClient) connecting to a MS Exchange server which, upon login, receives the error "1 BAD Command received in Invalid state." This same IMAP client works in a number of other environments with no errors, and certainly not errors immediately at login!
I've had trouble determining the source of the error and at this point I'm inclined to think the customer's Exchange server is misconfigured or there's some firewall or packet manipulation shenanigans afoot.
I was able to take a packet capture that really looks normal other than the error. After the TCP handshake this is the whole IMAP conversation, followed by the TCP hangup.
No. Time Source Destination
4 0.010228000 (server) (client)
Internet Message Access Protocol
Line: * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.\r\n
No. Time Source Destination
5 0.012680000 (client) (server)
Internet Message Access Protocol
Line: 1 LOGIN (username) (password)\r\n
Request Tag: 1
Request Command: LOGIN
Request: LOGIN (username) (password)
No. Time Source Destination
6 0.017559000 (server) (client)
Internet Message Access Protocol
Line: 1 BAD Command received in Invalid state.\r\n
Response Tag: 1
Response Status: BAD
Response: BAD Command received in Invalid state.
Am I right in assuming the problem is on the IMAP server's end?
You need to send a CAPABILITY command first, so that you can check if the server has LOGINDISABLED (which it probably does, hence your error).

"connection refused" when my play app makes http call to itself

I am implementing a heartbeat endpoint/route using play 2.2.1 built with Scala 2.10.2 (running Java 1.7.0_45). When
the heartbeat endpoint is called, I want the controller to make http calls to localhost. If all of those
calls are ok, then the heartbeat endpoint will return an OK http response.
When I execute the following url from curl, I get the expected 200 response:
http://localhost:9000/oauth2/token. I am also able to telnet to localhost 9000.
I am also able to use WS successfully with an external URL:
WS.url("http://www.example.com").withHeaders("Content-Type" -> "application/json").get()
However, when I execute it from within my play app, I get a 500 tcp_error response.
WS.url("http://localhost:9000/oauth2/token").withHeaders("Content-Type" -> "application/json").get()
WS.url("http://127.0.0.1:9000/oauth2/token").withHeaders("Content-Type" -> "application/json").get()
WS.url("http://HostName:9000/oauth2/token").withHeaders("Content-Type" -> "application/json").get()
Here is the exact error message I receive:
Network Error (tcp_error)
A communication error occurred: "Connection refused"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.
For assistance, contact your network support team.
Do I need to configure something to allow a play application to make calls to itself? Is this a network problem on
my box? If so, why do curl and telnet work? If a network issue, then it must be a jvm specific networking issue?
Could it be a security problem with play calling to itself? Not sure where to go next.