SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL

Question

Hi I'm using PHP to access the geocoding web service and on my local machine (mac running MAMP, php 5.2.6) it works fine. When I moved my application to my live server (CentOS running php 5.2.11) it get the following error:

SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsdl' : Start tag expected, '<' not found

Here's my test code:

try
{
   $soap_url = 'http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsdl';
   $soap_client = new SoapClient($soap_url);

   var_dump($soap_client->__getFunctions());
}
catch (Exception $e)
{
    echo '<pre>';
   print_r($e); exit;
}



Output

PHP 5.2.6
 array
  0 => string 'GeocodeResponse Geocode(Geocode $parameters)' (length=44)
  1 => string 'ReverseGeocodeResponse ReverseGeocode(ReverseGeocode $parameters)' (length=65)
  2 => string 'GeocodeResponse Geocode(Geocode $parameters)' (length=44)
  3 => string 'ReverseGeocodeResponse ReverseGeocode(ReverseGeocode $parameters)' (length=65)


PHP 5.2.11
SoapFault Object
(
    [message:protected] => SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsdl' : Start tag expected, '<' not found

    [string:private] =>
    [code:protected] => 0
    [file:protected] => /home/volvoad/vtna/vtna.com/test.php
    [line:protected] => 5
    [trace:private] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [file] => /home/volvoad/vtna/vtna.com/test.php
                    [line] => 5
                    [function] => SoapClient
                    [class] => SoapClient
                    [type] => ->
                    [args] => Array
                        (
                            [0] => http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsdl
                        )

                )

        )

    [faultstring] => SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsdl' : Start tag expected, '<' not found

    [faultcode] => WSDL
)

I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting ... any thoughts?

Answer 1

I figured it out if I change the wsdl url from:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsd

To:

http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/metadata/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.wsdl

It ends up working.

Anyone know why? Is there a redirect or something happening? Why would it work on some machines and not others? Wierdness ...

Also will I run into problems linking to: http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/metadata/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.wsdl? For example, does MS change this url often?

Thanks

Answer 2

The url is "http://dev.virtualearth.net/webservices/v1/geocodeservice/geocodeservice.svc?wsdl" and it has never been changed. It's possible the some kind of encoding in your url is occuring. As for using the Bing Map web services in PHP, check out this article: http://j-ng.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!CDA7EF602F8CCA1!159.entry

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