🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi there,

I had a COM DLL server (automation interface) which essentially uses a
TSocketServer component to implement TCP functionality. Recently I was
asked to convert it to a SOAP server and did so using SOAP Toolkit 3 -
yes, it's outdated but it's fast. The SOAP server now, among others,
exposes the methods StartListening which invokes a listening socket to
port 210 and ServerStatus which returns 1 if socket is up and listening
and 0 if it's not.

Here starts the odd thing: when I call the method StartListening from a
SOAP client, the method opens the socket, queries the socket compoenent
if it is active and returns a success string. However, although the
string indicates success, no socket appears on the firewall to have
been raised. On addition, the ServerStatus method always returns 0.

The COM server has been tested extensively with COM clients and works
fine, I can see on the firewall the socket raised, returns correct
status messages, etc.

This 'selective' behavior seems like a security issue though I have set
IUSR_computername user as administrator and given full access to this
user to the directory where the soap server resides but now I'm out of
clues. Any suggestions as to where to look for a solution?

Thank you