How can I send SOAP XML via Curl and PHP?

Question

This has been bugging me for days; I\'m trying to send a SOAP post via Curl but I just keep getting a \"couldn\'t connect to host\" error, but, I really can\'t see how.

Answer 1

This may be old, but this work for me. I originally had this function for an XML post and soap would not work until I change the HTTPHEADER to text/xml instead of application/xml:

function doXMLCurl($url,$postXML){
    $CURL = curl_init();

    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); 
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postXML); 
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_HEADER, false); 
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Accept: text/xml','Content-Type: text/xml'));
    curl_setopt($CURL, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    $xmlResponse = curl_exec($CURL); 

    return $xmlResponse;
}

Answer 2

For those finding this from Google, I ran into a similar problem, trying to interact with a .NET SOAP server from PHP, when the ASP method worked fine.

I used a packet sniffer to see what the ASP client was sending, exactly, and noticed it included cookies after the initial authentication request. So I enabled cookies in my cURL and it worked fine.

$cookiePath = tempnam('/tmp', 'cookie');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookiePath);

Answer 3

Your also using the wrong Content-type, application/xml is the correct type. But that shouldn't make any difference to the cURL request.

Answer 4

I had to use

$headers = array(             
    "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"", 
    "Accept: text/xml", 
    "Cache-Control: no-cache", 
    "Pragma: no-cache", 
    "SOAPAction: \"run\"", 
    "Content-length: ".strlen($xml),
); 

and

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); 

Answer 5

Try and set the port number using CURLOPT_PORT as perhaps it's not liking it as part of the URL?

Answer 6

Thanx a lot buddy, your code has worked for me.

Here is the code:

$soap_do = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_URL,            $url );   
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,        10); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);  
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POST,           true ); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,    $post_string); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,     array('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8', 'Content-Length: '.strlen($post_string) )); 
curl_setopt($soap_do, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $user . ":" . $password);

$result = curl_exec($soap_do);
$err = curl_error($soap_do);