[Phpwm] SOAP/XMLRPC/ Web services question

[Tim Williams]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, David Goodwin wrote:

> So... I've made the assumption that cookies/sessions "work as normal"
> when making xmlrpc/soap calls? Is the same also true for SDO stuff?

I've been writing some PHP code recently that communicates with a remote 
SOAP server. The mechanism used by this server was as follows :

1) Call a SOAP login function. This functions returns a session 
key in it's XML response.
2) Call the soap functions you actually need with the session key as part 
of the SOAP header.
3) Call a SOAP logout function.

Not exactly sure what would happen if the remote server was trying to use 
cookies, I would assume that the client code would have to be able to cope 
with this, making it more complicated to write, so the session keys are 
easier to work with.

Tim W

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