xml n php and http?

gingar

What does it mean when the vendor says 'Can you please confirm that you are sending XML over HTTP?'

He doesn't know php, and i'm an XML noob. lol

At present, i'm using curl to do it. I am able to send the xml query over, and get a response. but the response is not what i am expecting. I should receive a list of whatever i requested, but all i'm receiving is this.

<body><version>2</version><opCode>OP_OK</opCode></body>

this is the code i'm using to send the xml

$url = "http://xxx";
$xml = '<?xml version ="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
			<root>
				<header>
					<protocol>1</protocol>
					<oem>xx</oem>
					<agentID>xxx</agentID>
					<password>xxxx</password>
				</header>
				<body>
					<opCode>XX_AREAS_XX</opCode>
					<item name=”ANTALYA” ID=”5” />
					<item name=”JERUSALEM” ID=”1” />
				</body>

		</root>
	';

$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'xml=' . $xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$content = curl_exec($ch); #this returns html

anyone can help me?

amber_long83

you have done the right thing. you are already passing xml over HTTP.

the response you are getting is also a XML string.

gingar

but that's not the response that i'm expecting to get.. strange.. sighz

gingar

im really stuck here.. cannot see the problem.. anybody can help?

how come when i use a standalone program to submit the exact same xml string to the same url, using post, i get this reply.

<body><version>3.91</version><opCode>OP_AREAS_LIST</opCode><country ID="27"><item name="Aachen, Germany" ID="13547" coreID="0"/><item name="Augsburg, Germany" ID="4408" coreID="0"/><item name="Bad Homburg, Germany" ID="5867" coreID="0"/><item name="Baden-Baden, Germany" ID="229" coreID="0"/><item name="Bautzen, Germany" ID="5889" coreID="0"/></country></body>

but when i use the below code, i get this instead?
<body><version>3.91</version><opCode>OP_OK</opCode></body>

is there something wrong with the way i'm executing the code?

NogDog

See if this helps:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'xml=' . [color=red]urlencode([/color]$xml[color=red])[/color]);

gingar

Hi NogDog,

thanks for your input, i tried your suggestion, but i still get the same short reply.

puzzled 😕

very frustrating.. :mad: