[Phpwm] SOAP/XMLRPC/ Web services question

[Tim Williams]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, David Goodwin wrote:

> I'm reading a Packt book which covers SOAP/XMLRPC, and it's briefly mentioned 
> using headers, but not in _any_ detail (there was about 20 words on it)... 
> so, are headers part of the SOAP protocol, and effectively what I'm trying to 
> achieve with cookies? (i.e. are using them the real solution to my problem?)

>From my experience so far, SOAP requests are a bit like HTML pages, they 
have a header and a main body, eg :

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope 
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://myserver.com/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://myserver.com/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <SOAP-ENV:Header>
       <headerwrapper xmlns:m="http://myserver.com/">
           <myHeader>
             <session-id>SOAP_8304958908908901238954819235</session-id>
           </headerwrapper>
       </headerWrapper>
    </SOAP-ENV:Header>
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
       <functionWrapper xmlns:m="http://myserver.com/">
           <data>
               <stuff>Some information I wish to be processed !</stuff>
           </data>
       </functionWrapper>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


> The thing that puts me off SOAP is the WSDL file definition/creation.

Pass, i've not had to write one.

Tim W

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