Re: [SOAP] SOAP client issue: < & > removed from XML payload

[email protected] (David Zülke)
Newsgroups php.soap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This sounds like some kind of IO filtering, firewall, proxy, whatever.

Why don't you use ext/soap? What is this weird "PHP SOAP 0.12.0" stuff?

- David


Am 07.01.2009 um 23:49 schrieb Stephen Gray:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the replies. However the problem is not that the browser  
> doesn't display XML tags. If you try to display XML in a browser it  
> will not display the tags and just display what is between the tags.  
> This is not what is happening. What is happening is that the angle  
> brackets are being removed by SOAP client, so <tag1><tag2>value</ 
> tag2></tag1> is converted to tag1tag2value/tag2/tag1. This is what  
> you get even if you use var_dump() and write to disk.
>
> By the way I am using the latest version of PHP SOAP (0.12.0).
>
> Would be very grateful for any help. This is a huge problem for us  
> as it has completely broken our application.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> David Zülke wrote:
>> Am 07.01.2009 um 07:01 schrieb Stephen Gray:
>>> I am sure this is a problem with the PHP client not the server, as  
>>> when I replaced the PHP client with a Perl client the problem went  
>>> away.
>> It's not, the problem is you.
>> You are echo'ing something that looks like HTML. Your browser does  
>> not display the tags.
>> Use var_dump() instead of echo() or view the page source...
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've got a problem with a program using a PHP SOAP client that gets  
> XML from a Perl SOAP server. The problem is that the angle brackets  
> (< and >) are removed from the XML sent by the server by the SOAP  
> client. I am sure this is a problem with the PHP client not the  
> server, as when I replaced the PHP client with a Perl client the  
> problem went away.
>
> The code for the PHP client is as follows:
>
> __START CODE__
> <?php
>    require_once 'SOAP/Client.php';
>
>    $endpoint = "http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl";
>    $soapoptions = array('namespace' => 'urn:Test',
>                 'trace' => 1,
>                 'timeout' => 600);
>    $soapclient = new SOAP_Client($endpoint);
>
>    $params = "";
>    $response = $soapclient->call('Main', $params, $soapoptions);
> ?>
>
> <html>
> <head>
> </head>
> <body>
> <p>
> <?php
>    echo $response;
> ?>
> </p>
> </body>
> </html>
> __END CODE__
>
> Just in case it's relevant the code for the Perl server is:
>
> __START CODE__
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
> use Test;
>
> SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
>    -> dispatch_to('Test')
>        -> handle;
>
> package Test;
>
> sub Main {
>    return "<tag1><tag2>testing</tag2></tag1>";
> }
> __END CODE__
>
> Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? Any help much  
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Gray
>
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