How to write a SOAP request over HTTPS

[Stwange]

Hi,

As part of some work I'm doing I need to send a SOAP request of an xml file ($xml) to https://login.live.com/RST.srf

I have no idea how to do this and I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction.
I've tried:

$client = new SoapClient("https://login.live.com/RST.srf");
$funcs = $client->__getFunctions();
print_r($funcs);

to dump a list of functions, but it gives me:
Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't find <definitions> in 'https://login.live.com/RST.srf'

I've looked at SoapClient->__doRequest( ) but it seems to have too many arguments.

Any help would be seriously appreciated,

Thank-you.

[pbmods]

Heya, Stwange.

It looks like your SOAP client is successfully connecting, but it's not finding a properly-formatted WSDL flie.

SOAP generally requires a .wsdl file, not a .srf; see if there's a .wsdl file you can request instead.

[Stwange]

Heya, Stwange.

It looks like your SOAP client is successfully connecting, but it's not finding a properly-formatted WSDL flie.

SOAP generally requires a .wsdl file, not a .srf; see if there's a .wsdl file you can request instead.

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I read some of the SOAP methods connect to non-wsdl files, and don't require a function name but I still can't find any such implementations in PHP.

I did find a way around this though by using a HTTP POST instead, I'll post the solution just in case anyone else needs a workaround:

/* $xml is defined elsewhere as the XML document I want to send */
$tokenURL = fsockopen('ssl://login.live.com', 443);
$http =  "POST /RST.srf HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$http .= "Accept: */*\r\n";
$http .= "User-Agent: MSMSGS\r\n"; /* I'm writing for an MSN bot */
$http .= "Host: login.live.com\r\n";
$http .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($xml) . "\r\n";
$http .= "Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n";
$http .= "Cache-Control: no-cache\r\n\r\n";
fputs($tokenURL, $http . $xml);

That will send the SOAP request to the server. To retrieve the servers response you can just use fgets($tokenURL , 1024) - the last string may give you an SSL fatal error if the socket has been closed (ie. if the server sends the last string and disconnects), so use @fgets to hide it after testing.

If you get an XML file back from the server that says 'Invalid Request', these are the three things I found were causing that:
1. Some of my strings were in single quotes instead of double, meaning the \r\n was being sent as text.
2. The XML input file had excessive whitespace, ie. <someTag> value </someTag> - outside of tags it doesn't really matter but I removed it all using a replace on '>\s+' and '\s+<' to '>' and '<' respectively.
3. Make sure the XML input ends in \r\n\r\n (and again make sure you use double quotes here).
I hope this saves someone else at least a fraction of the time I've spent on it.