Re: [SOAP] soapclient using https randomly closes connection

Bernhard Ege wrote:
> I am using php 5.2.9 (solaris) and have access to a .NET webservice 
> that I
> have to access using https.
>
> In most cases, accessing it works just fine, but every now and again,
> SoapClient closes the connection before actually having transfered the
> request, erroring with "could not connect to host ...".
>
> I have captured the actual communication using snoop and examined the 
> result
> in wireshark and I see that the tcp connection to the webservice is
> established correct, but before the request is transmitted, SoapClient
> closes the tcp-connection which is acknowledged by the webservice 
> which also
> resets the TCP connection.
>
> When I disable the caching of the WSDL file for SoapClient, I get these
> errors (not always, only sometimes):
>
> Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: failed to 
> create
> an SSL context in /space/hom
>
> Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: Failed to 
> enable
> crypto in /space/home
>
This warning suggests that PHP is unable to create a SSL stream context 
. By default, if you disable caching, PHP has to download the wsdl to 
your /tmp directory. Is is possible you are running out of disk space in 
/tmp. 

- Sriram
> Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient(https://sitename.../pathto?WSDL)
> [soapclient.soapclient]: failed to open stream: operation failed in
> /space/home
>
> Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: I/O warning :
> failed to load external entity "https://sitename.../pathto?WSDL" in
> /space/hom
>
> Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing 
> WSDL:
> Couldn't load from 'https://...
>
>
> If I would get this error every time, I'd be more happy, but when it only
> occurs once in a while (like every 10. connect), I am more at a loss. 
> But it
> does seem like SoapClient is at fault.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> /Bernhard
>