if I use Firefox and access http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1 I get some sort of XML in respose, when I do that through PHP I get Internal Server Error 500
$ php -r 'print_r(simplexml_load_file("http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1"));'
PHP Warning: simplexml_load_file(http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
in Command line code on line 1
PHP Stack trace:
PHP 1. {main}() Command line code:0
PHP 2. simplexml_load_file() Command line code:1
PHP Warning: simplexml_load_file(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1" in Command line code on line 1
PHP Stack trace:
PHP 1. {main}() Command line code:0
PHP 2. simplexml_load_file() Command line code:1
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When I visit http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1 in firefox, firebug reports that the HTTP reponse code is indeed 500. (even though it sends some XML in the request body)
You're calling the web service in the wrong way.
Yes, you got XML back, but the response code is 500, meaning your URL is wrong.
Calling ximlexml_load_file via url wrappers expects a success code.
That said, you could probably get at the data anyway. Maybe.
But you should figure out how the service wants you to to query.
If you want to be able to read 500 request data use curl
<?php
// create a new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
// grab URL and pass it to the browser
$xml = curl_exec($ch);
$simpleXml = simplexml_load_string($xml);
// close cURL resource, and free up system resources
curl_close($ch);
?>
When I go to that site, I get:
<ms:errorMessage>
−
<error>
<errorId>2038</errorId>
<domain>SOA</domain>
<severity>Error</severity>
<category>System</category>
<message>Missing SOA operation name header</message>
</error>
</ms:errorMessage>
So it would seem that the URL is to a web service and probably requires some kind of authentication or at least input data in the request header. The HTTP response 500, according to Wikipedia, is a generic error meaning that the server can't specify the problem but knows there was one. Here's the best part of that article:
Response status codes beginning with
the digit "5" indicate cases in which
the server is aware that it has
encountered an error or is otherwise
incapable of performing the request.
Except when responding to a HEAD
request, the server should include an
entity containing an explanation of
the error situation, and indicate
whether it is a temporary or permanent
condition.
All that combined, I'd have to say your issue is that your are trying to grab a file from a remote server using a method that assumes you have some directory-level access to that file, and the server is responding with "Um, what?"
If you want to get the actual XML error as though you were in Firefox, use cURL:
$ebay_url = "http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1";
$ebay_page = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ebay_page, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //output to string.
curl_setopt($ebay_page, CURLOPT_URL, $ebay_url); //set the url for the request.
$ebay_response = curl_exec($ebay_page);
print_r(simplexml_load_string($ebay_response));
If you want to actually get something back more meaningful, I would look at PHP's SoapClient methods and the actual ebay web service documentation.
The http headers need to be set specifying the operation to be executed. If you read how to make a call using the finding API, the article mentions the following http headers that need to be set:
X-EBAY-SOA-SERVICE-NAME: FindingService
X-EBAY-SOA-OPERATION-NAME: findItemsAdvanced <-- whatever call you are making
X-EBAY-SOA-SERVICE-VERSION: 1.0.0
X-EBAY-SOA-GLOBAL-ID: EBAY-US
X-EBAY-SOA-SECURITY-APPNAME: MyAppID
X-EBAY-SOA-REQUEST-DATA-FORMAT: XML
X-EBAY-SOA-MESSAGE-PROTOCOL: XML
Once those are set your call shoud work fine.
Maybe you want to try the following URL. When I do, I get back the XML and a 200 response.
http://svcs.ebay.com/services/search/FindingService/v1?wsdl
You need to reinstall your php (assuming you already have apache2 installed). Using these commands:
1) sudo apt update && apt upgrade
2) sudo apt install php-pear php-fpm php-dev php-zip php-curl php-xmlrpc php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml libapache2-mod-php
3) sudo service apache2 restart