file_get_contents() with no response - php

Question

I am trying to call a web service which basicaly looks like this:

http://10.10.10.10:8080/gw/someAction?amount=10&description='Some description'

So this is how i call this web service:

$endpoint = "http://10.10.10.10:8080/gw/someAction?amount=10&description='Some description'";

    $opts = array('http' =>
            array(
                    'method' => 'GET',
                    'header'  => 'Content-type: application/xml'
            )
    );

    $context  = stream_context_create( $opts );

    $result = file_get_contents( $endpoint, false, $context );
    $xml_result = simplexml_load_string( $result );
    echo $xml_result->success;

So here, i got nothing, the xml_result is empty. And here is the interesting part - when i remove the blank space from the description:

 http://10.10.10.10:8080/gw/someAction?amount=10&description='Somedescription'

Everything is just fine, I got the answer from the web service. Also tried to call the web service with the chrome rest client WITH the blank space in the description and everything is OK, i have response. So this leads me to some kind of PHP problem here with the blank spaces in the web service. Please, help !

UPDATE:

print_r($result)

results in

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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This is not a valid URL, spaces must be escaped:

http://10.10.10.10:8080/gw/someAction?amount=10&description='Some%20description'

You might want to take a look at How to properly URL encode a string in PHP?.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:23

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answered May 12 '15 at 12:08

Werner Henze

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Didn`t work..alto tried urlencode() with no success. – Alexander Nikolov May 12 '15 at 12:28
rawurlencode() only for the description parameter did the job – Alexander Nikolov May 15 '15 at 10:56

file_get_contents() with no response - php

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