Consuming a PHP Webservice

[Carlos Lozano]

Hi,

as a background I have an Windows application developed with VS 2003 (c#)
that needs to transfer securely data to a MySQL database located on a Linux
server.

I have created a PHP webservice that will receive an xml file with all the
data to update an encrypted database. This way all database logic will remain
on the Linux server. The web service works OK using a testing PHP client.

The windows application will create the xml file to be transferred to the
web service to consume the webservice.

I have been reading about the ServicePoint class, proxies and WSDL, but I
feel kind of lost as I am new to web services.
Why do I need a proxy?
Can I just connect directly to the PHP web service to consume it?

I found a console sample on MSDN and try to use it to test the webservice on
Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tionclient.asp

I tryed to use WSDL, but got an error saying "the HTML file specified does
not contain webservice discovery information".

I called it as:
WSDL http://linuxServer/WebService.php?wsdl

I will appreciate any guidance.

Carlos Lozano

[hobbyman]

Just add the php as a "web reference" in your project. I did just a little
testing with just what you are trying. I was able to successfully make calls
and pass data back and forth with no problems. On the PHP side be sure to do
a google search for "nusoap" which is a very good php class package.

"Carlos Lozano" wrote:

Hi,

as a background I have an Windows application developed with VS 2003 (c#)
that needs to transfer securely data to a MySQL database located on a Linux
server.

I have created a PHP webservice that will receive an xml file with all the
data to update an encrypted database. This way all database logic will remain
on the Linux server. The web service works OK using a testing PHP client.

The windows application will create the xml file to be transferred to the
web service to consume the webservice.

I have been reading about the ServicePoint class, proxies and WSDL, but I
feel kind of lost as I am new to web services.
Why do I need a proxy?
Can I just connect directly to the PHP web service to consume it?

I found a console sample on MSDN and try to use it to test the webservice on
Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tionclient.asp

I tryed to use WSDL, but got an error saying "the HTML file specified does
not contain webservice discovery information".

I called it as:
WSDL http://linuxServer/WebService.php?wsdl

I will appreciate any guidance.

Carlos Lozano

[Carlos Lozano]

Hi,

Good you were able to test it, that confirms it will work just fine.

In fact, I am currently using NuSoap for the server implementation. Would
you mind sharing one of your samples (VB or C# would be okay) to use it as a
starting point?

I am not so versed with web services yet.

Thank you,

Carlos Lozano

"hobbyman" wrote:

Just add the php as a "web reference" in your project. I did just a little
testing with just what you are trying. I was able to successfully make calls
and pass data back and forth with no problems. On the PHP side be sure to do
a google search for "nusoap" which is a very good php class package.

"Carlos Lozano" wrote:

Hi,

as a background I have an Windows application developed with VS 2003 (c#)
that needs to transfer securely data to a MySQL database located on a Linux
server.

I have created a PHP webservice that will receive an xml file with all the
data to update an encrypted database. This way all database logic will remain
on the Linux server. The web service works OK using a testing PHP client.

The windows application will create the xml file to be transferred to the
web service to consume the webservice.

I have been reading about the ServicePoint class, proxies and WSDL, but I
feel kind of lost as I am new to web services.
Why do I need a proxy?
Can I just connect directly to the PHP web service to consume it?

I found a console sample on MSDN and try to use it to test the webservice on
Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tionclient.asp

I tryed to use WSDL, but got an error saying "the HTML file specified does
not contain webservice discovery information".

I called it as:
WSDL http://linuxServer/WebService.php?wsdl

I will appreciate any guidance.

Carlos Lozano

[wmaradei]

Hi, you said
"just add the php as a "web reference" in your project"

But Im not able to do that, when I try to add the webreference .NET
searches for a .WSDL or .ASMX file with webservice defini9tion, but I
have none. Should I create one ??

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[rahul.vk.khand]

Hi,

I am facing kind of similar issue. Below is the detail.

I've a Web Service created using PHP hosted on a Linux box. It's
working fine without any authentication. When I try to secure this by
enabling basic authentication using .htaccess and then try to consume
this, it fails saying

SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from
http://www.xyz.com/Service/Service.php?wsdl

Can anyone please help me resolving this issue. I am using .Net as
client to consume this web service. However I am not able to consume
this neither using PHP nor using .Net.

A quick help required.

Many Thanks.
Rahul.
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[John Saunders [MVP]]

"rahul.vk.khand" <ra*******************@no-mx.forums.yourdomain.com.au>
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Hi,

I am facing kind of similar issue. Below is the detail.

I've a Web Service created using PHP hosted on a Linux box. It's
working fine without any authentication. When I try to secure this by
enabling basic authentication using .htaccess and then try to consume
this, it fails saying

SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from
http://www.xyz.com/Service/Service.php?wsdl

Does it say anything else about why it can't load the WSDL? Please post the
entire exception.
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[levi2000]

Does it say anything else about why it can't load the WSDL? Please post
the entire exception.

I have the same problem. I can reproduce it by browser and the output
is something like this.

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>WSDL</faultcode>
<faultstring>SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from'
http://....wsdl'</faultstring>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault></SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

It 's the same issue rahul.vk.khand described. I use the
Prado-Framework to offer my webservice. My idea was to test NuSoap but
it sounds like there is the same problem.

regards

levi
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