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Posted by Stephen on 07/03/06 11:22
David Haynes wote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > Stephen wote:
> >> David Haynes wote:
> >>> Stephen wrote:
> >>>> I've got a problem with a PHP program that i've written using the
> >>>> standard SOAP client with a WSDL file.
> >>>> When calling one of the functions on the SOAP server i'm occasionally
> >>>> receiving a response containing a pound sign encoded as £. This
> >>>> causes my program to report 'Looks like we got no XML document' and not
> >>>> process the response.
> >>>> The SOAP server is provided by a third party and appears to be Perl
> >>>> SOAPLite. They insist that the pound is being encoded correctly.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm using PHP 5.1.4 from the command line running on Windows 2000.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any way around this problem?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance,
> >>>> Stephen
> >>>>
> >>> Stephen,
> >>> Try using nuSOAP instead. I know it's a bit of a pain to switch, but I
> >>> found nuSOAP works a little bit better with the perl SOAP implementation.
> >>>
> >>> -david-
> >>
> >> Thanks. I'll give nuSOAP a try.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Stephen
> >
> > I've had a go with nuSOAP and i'm still having no joy. The function
> > call returns false when I try to bring back the request containing the
> > pound sign.
> >
> > The offending line looks like this:
> >
> > <commentText xsi:type="xsd:string">this is a £ pound
> > sign</commentText>
> >
> > The xml headers on the response file are:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> > xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
> > xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
> > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> > SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
> >
> > regards,
> > Stephen
> >
> A couple of things to try then:
> 1. set encoding="iso-8859-1" instead of "UTF-8"
> 2. encode your pound sign as &#A3; or £
>
> -david-
The second option would work if I could persuade the provider of the
SOAP server to change their code which is a no-goer unfortunately.
Is there a way of encoding the pound sign within the WSDL file on the
client side?
regards,
Stephen
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