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

[email protected] (David Zülke)
Newsgroups php.soap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That's the native PHP SOAP extension. http://php.net/soap

No idea why you would use anything else.

- David



On 09.01.2009, at 08:11, Stephen Gray <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thanks. Can you tell me what ext/soap is? I haven't come across this  
> before. Where do you get it.
>
> 0.12.0 is the version of the SOAP/Client PHP library which includes  
> the SOAP_Client class.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
> David Zülke wrote:
>> 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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>>>
>>
>
>
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