PHP SoapClient port bug workaround

PHP’s SoapClient has a bug (PHP 5.2.10 here, still not fixed apparently) when the SOAP service must be accessed on a different port other than 80. The WSDL file is fetched correctly, but all subsequent requests are made without any port in the Host field. This causes a SoapFault exception when trying to call any of the service’s methods.

So if the WSDL location is:

http://example.com:33080/soap/server/path?WSDL

All requests after fetching the WSDL file will be made to:

http://example.com/soap/server/path

The simplest way i could work around this was to extend SoapClient and intercept the constructor and the __doRequest method to inject the port in the location on each request:

<?php
class My_SoapClient extends SoapClient {
 
    public function __construct($wsdl, $options) {
        $url = parse_url($wsdl);
        if ($url['port']) {
            $this->_port = $url['port'];
        }
        return parent::__construct($wsdl, $options);
    }
 
    public function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version) {
        $parts = parse_url($location);
        if ($this->_port) {
            $parts['port'] = $this->_port;
        }
        $location = $this->buildLocation($parts);
 
        $return = parent::__doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version);
        return $return;
    }
 
    public function buildLocation($parts = array()) {
        $location = '';
 
        if (isset($parts['scheme'])) {
            $location .= $parts['scheme'].'://';
        }
        if (isset($parts['user']) || isset($parts['pass'])) {
            $location .= $parts['user'].':'.$parts['pass'].'@';
        }
        $location .= $parts['host'];
        if (isset($parts['port'])) {
            $location .= ':'.$parts['port'];
        }
        $location .= $parts['path'];
        if (isset($parts['query'])) {
            $location .= '?'.$parts['query'];
        }
 
        return $location;
    }
}

It works for me, and I would like to know if it doesn’t cover your particular case :)

March 2, 2010 | Filed Under PHP

Comments

13 Responses to “PHP SoapClient port bug workaround”

daniel andres miranda
on June 28th, 2010 16:15

Thanks, very usefully for me!
Steen Larsen
on August 10th, 2010 09:36

This code solve my problem aswell. Thanks for sharing ;-)
Mihaly Koles
on August 23rd, 2010 19:47

Thanks for this “little” hack!
PHP SOAP is driving me crazy, your class helped me to solve a very frustrating issue! Thanks again pal, you saved my day, seriously! :)
Ribacki
on September 2nd, 2010 21:31

Thanks! It worked flawlessly for my case!
Mario
on January 22nd, 2011 17:02

Thank you! It resolved my port problem!
Guy Incognito
on June 16th, 2011 14:50

I wouldn’t call that a PHP bug, since the service URL is defined within the WSDL file, where the port is missing already.
Little Fang
on June 21st, 2011 12:52

Thank you! It resolved my port problem, too!
Stéphaen
on June 23rd, 2011 17:28

Great ! it solved my problem and saved my day !!

One point : to make it works I had to change the _doRequest declaration by :

(…)
function __doRequest($request, $location, $action, $version, $one_way = 0)
(…)
php 5.3.5

Thank’s
yusman
on August 24th, 2011 11:59

hi Victor Stanciu, thank u for this tutorial this verry usefull fro newbee like me, but i use codeigniter, can u give a sample how to implement this code on codeiginiter framework ..?
DissidentRage
on January 10th, 2012 21:39

SoapClient::__doRequest now has an additional parameter, $one_way, so you get a Strict Standards warning with this code.

To fix it, append this to the parameters of the override function:

$one_way = 0

Then pass it to the superclass function after parsing the URL.
giulio
on January 16th, 2012 12:44

thank you, saved the morning!
John Lindal
on January 21st, 2012 00:29

If $this->port is not set, you don’t need to even parse the location in __doRequest().
Eric
on January 31st, 2012 15:24

This post inspired a solution to my SoapClient problem. Thanks!