PHP WSDL SOAP Can't Import Schema

Question

I'm trying to use an external webservice but I get the error Parsing Schema: can't import schema from webservice_url. The service uses HTTP Basic authentication and is using SSL. I can login via a web browser and see the xml it produces but I can't change what is generated since it is not my code generating the xml. I have the following code.

$config = array('login' => $user_id, 'password' => $password);
$client = new SoapClient($url, $config);

Can you post the XML that you see through the browser? What is the value of $url? — davidfmatheson, Aug 03 '12 at 15:35
Can you save the WSDL locally and point PHP to that, without the user/pass? — davidfmatheson, Aug 03 '12 at 15:45
As in just save the xml file locally and output it from some script on my local server? — Chris McKnight, Aug 03 '12 at 15:50
Yes, save it locally and then replace $url with the local file path. — davidfmatheson, Aug 03 '12 at 15:51
It might be having trouble importing that schema definition. Try to save that locally, too, and change the schemaLocation in the local WSDL file. — davidfmatheson, Aug 03 '12 at 15:51
Hmm. I'll give it a shot. I wonder if the schema url asks for the login information as well and that's why it fails — Chris McKnight, Aug 03 '12 at 15:53
Could very well be the same problem as this one: [401 Authentication Error when SoapClient tries to fetch schema file](http://stackoverflow.com/a/39912332/839332) — Tommy Bravo, Oct 07 '16 at 08:23
That's the issue @TommyBravo. It's silly having to save the schema. I ended up using Ruby since it doesn't require saving the schema. — Chris McKnight, Oct 07 '16 at 13:32

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 08 '12 at 04:57

Well after researching and reading a bunch of articles online it seems like this is a limitation of php-soap and some suggestions point at using curl to accomplish. I actually decided to avoid PHP entirely since I just learned Ruby and have been going away from PHP. I accomplished my above task by using the Savon gem which has some pretty good documentation on the authentication and setting the cookie. It works great using this gem.

davidfmatheson · Answer 2 · 2012-08-03T17:00:40.453

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I found this on the SoapClient manual page's comment section:

<?php 

$login = 'someone';
$password = 'secret';

$client = new SoapClient(
    'https://' . urlencode($login) . ':' . urlencode($password) . '@www.server.com/path/to/wsdl',
    array(
        'login' => $login,
        'password' => $password
    )
);

?>

Seems like the basic authentication is for the endpoint invocation, not the WSDL retrieval.

edited Aug 03 '12 at 17:00

answered Aug 03 '12 at 16:16

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Hmm. I tried that. Pointing it the WSDL gives the same error as in my question and pointing it to the schema gives `SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't find ` – Chris McKnight Aug 03 '12 at 16:23
Oops! had `http://` at the beginning instead of `https://`. Edited answer to fix. Did you change that when you tried? – davidfmatheson Aug 03 '12 at 17:01
Yes I did. I also put the port behind the address as well. I tried setting the `proxy_host` to the schema url but requests all come back `NULL` – Chris McKnight Aug 03 '12 at 21:17
Make sure OpenSSL support is enabled in your phpinfo()? – davidfmatheson Aug 07 '12 at 17:42
Says enabled and version is OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010 – Chris McKnight Aug 07 '12 at 17:59
Thanks for the help I decided to go with the Ruby Gem `Savon` – Chris McKnight Aug 08 '12 at 04:59

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