PHP Soap "Could not connect to host"

Question

My PHP Soap request fails while connecting to the Reuters TRKD. Unfortunately, it only fails on my local laptop, while the same request works on the server.

My first guess was to check via Wireshark, but it seems after the WSDL file is cached, the request does not get sent to the service endpoint.

And it is only one request that fails, the auth, the rest work fine after authorization. What could be the issue?

php --version

PHP 5.3.10-1ubuntu3 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Apr 11 2012 17:25:33) 
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies
    with Xdebug v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 2002-2010, by Derick Rethans

Ubuntu 12.04

UPDATE : I overloaded the SoapClient::__doRequest method to dump the URLs and requests.

__DO REQUEST
$request : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:ns1="http://www.reuters.com/ns/2006/05/01/webservices/rkd/Common_1" xmlns:ns2="http://www.reuters.com/ns/2006/05/01/webservices/rkd/TokenManagement_1" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing"><env:Header><ns3:To>https://api.rkd.reuters.com/api/2006/05/01/TokenManagement_1.svc/Anonymous</ns3:To><ns3:Action>http://www.reuters.com/ns/2006/05/01/webservices/rkd/TokenManagement_1/CreateServiceToken_1</ns3:Action></env:Header><env:Body><ns2:CreateServiceToken_Request_1><ns1:ApplicationID>BLAH</ns1:ApplicationID><ns2:Username>BLAH</ns2:Username><ns2:Password>BLAH</ns2:Password></ns2:CreateServiceToken_Request_1></env:Body></env:Envelope>

$location : https://api.rkd.reuters.com/api/TokenManagement/TokenManagement.svc/Anonymous
$action : http://www.reuters.com/ns/2006/05/01/webservices/rkd/TokenManagement_1/CreateServiceToken_1
$version : 2
$one_way : 0
SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Could not connect to host in ..

Looking at other stockoverflow posts i can see that i have ssl installed.

php -i | grep ssl                                                                                                                             1 ↵
Registered Stream Socket Transports => tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, tls
openssl

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 12 '13 at 15:43

6 hours attempts.. this works for me: 'stream_context' => stream_context_create(array('ssl' => array('ciphers'=>'RC4-SHA'))) !

`$soap = new SoapClient($wsdl, array(
    'login' => $login,
    'password' => $password,
    'exceptions' => true,
    'stream_context' => stream_context_create(array('ssl' => array('ciphers'=>'RC4-SHA'))),
    'trace' => true
    ));`

info: php.net CURLOPT_SSLVERSION The SSL version (2 or 3) to use. By default PHP will try to determine this itself, although in some cases this must be set manually.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '12 at 11:01

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try with:

ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled", 0);

answered Oct 22 '12 at 11:01

Teson

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I tried that. I manually cleared the cache too. The WSDL is downloaded just fine. I think the issue may be related to an https call. – Adil Oct 22 '12 at 11:14
Struggeling with native php SOAP, http://rabaix.net/en/articles/2008/03/13/using-soap-php-with-ntlm-authentication helped me, worth a try. – Teson Oct 22 '12 at 11:20

PHP Soap "Could not connect to host"

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