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

[email protected] (Stephen Gray) Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:19:20 +1100
Newsgroups	php.soap
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Thanks for all the replies to this issue.

It turned out that the problem was a bug in libxml. See 
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45996&edit=1 for more information.

Regards,
Steve

David ZÃ¼lke wrote:
> 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 ZÃ¼lke 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 ZÃ¼lke 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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