HTML in front of XML while using SOAP. Please help.

**Paul Fisher** · Jul 17 '05, 01:30 PM

Re: HTML in front of XML while using SOAP. Please help.

Cantor wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello everyone :)
>
> I am writing some dotNET code to "consume" a web service written in
> PHP. So far I have been getting some error messages and PHP seems to
> place HTML text in front of the XML message. dotNET doesn't expect the
> XML and then it chokes. This is what I get.
>
> The tag from namespace is not expected. Line 1, position 2.
>
> I was able to capture the data going through the network and I've got
> the outgoing and incoming messages. I put those at the end of the post
> because they are too long.
>
> Looking at them you can perfectly see the HTML I mentioned. In this
> case the HTML part says I am missing arguments. That should be an error
> message coded in SOAP. But there is more. There is an actual SOAP error
> message, it looks like even when the call was bad it executed the code;
> it must have put something on the missing parameters.
>
> My biggest issue is that the HTML prevents me from doing proper error
> handling on my side of the app. Is this fixable?
>
> Arturo Hernandez
>
> PD If it is fixable I'll comunicate the answer to my service provider.
> And I do have a good relation with the programmers there.
>
> ----------------------------Outbound
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <soap:Envelop e xmlns:soap="htt p://schemas.xmlsoap .org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:soapenc=" http://schemas.xmlsoap .org/soap/encoding/"
> xmlns:tns="urn: CreateUserSvs"
> xmlns:types="ur n:CreateUserSvs/encodedTypes"
> xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
> <soap:Body
> soap:encodingSt yle="http://schemas.xmlsoap .org/soap/encoding/">
> <tns:CreateUser >
> <UserID xsi:type="xsd:s tring">kirk</UserID>
> <UserKey xsi:type="xsd:s tring" />
> <Password xsi:type="xsd:s tring">hill</Password>
> <FirstName xsi:type="xsd:s tring">kirk</FirstName>
> <LastName xsi:type="xsd:s tring">hill</LastName>
> <Address xsi:type="xsd:s tring" />
> <City xsi:type="xsd:s tring" />
> <Province xsi:type="xsd:s tring" />
> <Country xsi:type="xsd:s tring" />
> <PostalCode xsi:type="xsd:s tring" />
> <EmailAddress xsi:type="xsd:s tring">khill@ho tmail.com</EmailAddress>
> <RichContent xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">false</RichContent>
> <VisionImpair ed xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">false</VisionImpaired>
> <Impaired xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">false</Impaired>
> <LogonNotify xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">false</LogonNotify>
> <EmailNotify xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">false</EmailNotify>
> <Active xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">false</Active>
> <Security xsi:type="xsd:i nt">0</Security>
> <ForceUpdate xsi:type="xsd:b oolean">true</ForceUpdate>
> </tns:CreateUser> </soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
>
> ------------------------------Inbound
>
> Warning: Missing argument 20 for CreateUser() in
> C:\Websites\ prod\api\Create UserSvs.php on line 392 
> 
> Warning: Missing argument 21 for CreateUser() in
> C:\Websites\ prod\api\Create UserSvs.php on line 392 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> SOAP-ENV:encodingSty le="http://schemas.xmlsoap .org/soap/encoding/"
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap .org/soap/envelope/"
> xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap .org/soap/encoding/"
> xmlns:si="http://soapinterop.org/xsd">
> <SOAP-ENV:Body><SOAP-ENV:Fault><faul tcode>ERROR.USE R_EXISTS</faultcode><faul tactor></faultactor>
> <faultstring>Th e UserID specified exists, to update this user you must
> set ForceUpdate to true.</faultstring> <detail><soapVa l
> xsi:type="xsd:s tring"></soapVal></detail></SOAP-ENV:Fault></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
>[/color]
In this case, the error message is not missing arguments on your part,
but missing arguments on the programmers of the PHP script's part. That
would be a (monster!) function call in the internal PHP source of the
service, where they only had nineteen parameters when there should've
been twenty-one. Give the programmers the error message, complete with
line and file, and see what they can do about it.

Also: "The br tag from namespace is not expected." really just means
that the br tag /has/ no namespace.

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NC · Jul 17 '05, 01:30 PM

Re: HTML in front of XML while using SOAP. Please help.

Cantor wrote:[color=blue]
>
> I am writing some dotNET code to "consume" a web service
> written in PHP. So far I have been getting some error
> messages and PHP seems to place HTML text in front of
> the XML message.[/color]
....[color=blue]
> My biggest issue is that the HTML prevents me from doing
> proper error handling on my side of the app. Is this
> fixable?[/color]

Yes, but you need to fix the provider, not the client...

Cheers,
NC

HTML in front of XML while using SOAP. Please help.

HTML in front of XML while using SOAP. Please help.

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