SOAP: looks like we got no XML document

Question

I'm trying to create a web service but before I do I'm trying to get a simple example that I found on the internet to work first but I keep getting the following error:

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [Client] looks like we got no XML document in C:\Documents and Settings\geoff\My Documents\Websites\jquery\index.php:20 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__call('getStockQuote', Array) #1 C:\Documents and Settings\geoff\My Documents\Websites\jquery\index.php(20): SoapClient->getStockQuote(Array) #2 {main} thrown in C:\Documents and Settings\geoff\My Documents\Websites\jquery\index.php on line 20

I am using nusoap v1.94

My web service code looks like this:

function getStockQuote($symbol) {
$price = '1.23';
return $price;
}

require('nusoap.php');

$server = new soap_server();

$server->configureWSDL('stockserver', 'urn:stockquote');

$server->register("getStockQuote",
            array('symbol' => 'xsd:string'),
            array('return' => 'xsd:decimal'),
            'urn:stockquote',
            'urn:stockquote#getStockQuote');

$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA)
                  ? $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA : '';
$server->service($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);

I know one cause is to have whitespace before or after your php tags in your server script but thats not the case. It has been driving me mad for hours! Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Pretty late but adding my fix to benefit of others. I have got similar error when I changed my Apache server from 2.2 to 2.4 and PHP 5.4.10 to 5.6.18 on windows. Client app used php 5.6.1. To fix the problem, I have done the following:

1. Passed SOAP version parameter to SoapClient:

   'soap_version' => SOAP_1_1

2. On the server php.ini configuration file I have added:

   always_populate_raw_post_data = -1

Answer 2

Another possible solution...

I had the same problem, I was getting crazy. The solution was simple. Verifying my server.. cause it is a server error. My error was that i had put "rcp" instead of "rpc".

Answer 3

A bit late, but this kinda error is often caused by server-side (SOAP sense) problem :

• print/echo content
• rik's answer too
• mistake (eg I was currently having this error because of a miswritten filename in an include, generating an include error instead of executing the script...)
• bad parameter in SOAP server
• not the same compression level both sides (if compression used)

This message just inform you that the SOAP client did not receive well-formatted XML (eg. an error message instead of XML).