Re: Fun with SOAP.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@gmail.com> wrote: > A fellow co-worker of mine is working on a project integrating with > Amazon using SOAP. I've never used SOAP before but it seemed like > things were straight forward at first. Some parts work while others > done. Right now we are stuck trying to fetch a document from the > remote server. > > We are able to connect and get a list of documents as expected. The > PHP 5 SOAP extension handles this like a champ. When a single > document is requested an exception is thrown with the error message > "looks like we got no XML document." The document listing request > returns a simple single text/xml SOAP XML response. The request for a > single document returns a multi-part (multipart/related) response. > > Can the PHP 5 soap client even parse such things? I looked at the > manual pages and did Google searching, but I'm not even sure what to > word my queries as. It seems like somehow this should just work as > the script just defines a client and then does the call. So any help > or links to something that explains how this multipart response can be > handled will be greatly appreciated. See below for the script & > responses. i know this has nothing to do w/ getting it to work w/ php, eric, but have you tried hitting the service w/ soap ui? http://www.soapui.org/ although its written in java, its an indispensable testing tool, imho, and i always give it a shot when im having soap troubles. i might try to see if you can get a successful response from the service w/ it. -nathan