[php] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from - but works on WAMP

This works fine on my WAMP server, but doesn't work on the linux master server!?

try{
    $client = new SoapClient('http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl', ['trace' => true]);
    $result = $client->checkVat([
        'countryCode' => 'DK',
        'vatNumber' => '47458714'
    ]);
    print_r($result);
}
catch(Exception $e){
    echo $e->getMessage();
}

What am I missing here?! :(

SOAP is enabled

Error

SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl"/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl"

Call the URL from PHP

Calling the URL from PHP returns error

$wsdl = file_get_contents('http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl');
echo $wsdl;

Error

Warning:  file_get_contents(http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 503 Service Unavailable

Call the URL from command line

Calling the URL from the linux command line HTTP 200 is returned with a XML response

curl http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl

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The answer is


It may be helpful for someone, although there is no precise answer to this question.

My soap url has a non-standard port(9087 for example), and firewall blocked that request and I took each time this error:

ERROR - 2017-12-19 20:44:11 --> Fatal Error - SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://soalurl.test:9087/orawsv?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "http://soalurl.test:9087/orawsv?wsdl"

I allowed port in firewall and solved the error!


503 means the functions are working and you're getting a response from the remote server denying you. If you ever tried to cURL google results the same thing happens, because they can detect the user-agent used by file_get_contents and cURL and as a result block those user agents. It's also possible that the server you're accessing from also has it's IP address blackballed for such practices.

Mainly three common reasons why the commands wouldn't work just like the browser in a remote situation.

1) The default USER-AGENT has been blocked. 2) Your server's IP block has been blocked. 3) Remote host has a proxy detection.


Adding ?wsdl at the end and calling the method:

$client->__setLocation('url?wsdl'); 

helped to me.


I might have read all questions about this for two days. None of the answers worked for me.

In my case I was lacking cURL module for PHP.

Be aware that, just because you can use cURL on terminal, it does not mean that you have PHP cURL module and it is active. There was no error showing about it. Not even on /var/log/apache2/error.log

How to install module: (replace version number for the apropiated one)

sudo apt install php7.2-curl
sudo service apache2 reload

After hours of analysis reading tons of logs and internet, finally found problem.

If you use docker and php 7.4 (my case) you probably get error because default security level in OpenSSL it too high for wsdl cert. Even if you disable verify and allow self-signed in SoapClient options.

You need lower seclevel in /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf from DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=2 to

DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=1

Or just add into Dockerfile

RUN sed -i "s|DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=2|DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=1|g" /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf

Source: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/30667#issuecomment-566482876


You can verify it by run on container

curl -A 'cURL User Agent' -4 https://ewus.nfz.gov.pl/ws-broker-server-ewus/services/Auth?wsdl

Before that change I got error:

SSL routines:tls_process_ske_dhe:dh key too small

Try changing

$client = new SoapClient('http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl', ['trace' => true]);

to

$client = new SoapClient('http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl', ['trace' => true, 'cache_wsdl' => WSDL_CACHE_MEMORY]);

Also (whether that works or not), check to make sure that /tmp is writeable by your web server and that it isn't full.


None of the above works for me, so after a lot of research, I ended up pre-downloading the wsdl file, saving it locally, and passing that file as the first parameter to SoapClient.

Worth mentioning is that file_get_contents($serviceUrl) returned empty response for me, while the url opened fine in my browser. That is probably why SoapClient also could not load the wsdl document. So I ended up downloading it with the php curl library. Here is an example

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $serviceUrl);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$wsdl = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

$wsdlFile = '/tmp/service.wsdl';
file_put_contents($wsdlFile, $wsdl);

$client = new SoapClient($wsdlFile);

You can of course implement your own caching policy for the wsdl file, so it won't be downloaded on each request.


You cant blame code all the time sometime may be your url is wrong , double check urls


Try enabling openssl extension in your php.ini if it is disabled. This way I could access the web service without need of any extra arguments, i.e.,

$client = new SoapClient(url);

I use the AdWords API, and sometimes I have the same problem. My solution is to add ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 900); on the file vendor\googleads\googleads-php-lib\src\Google\AdsApi\AdsSoapClient.php line 65

and in the vendor\googleads-php-lib\src\Google\AdsApi\Adwords\Reporting\v201702\ReportDownloader.php line 126 ini_set('default_socket_timeout', 900); $requestOptions['stream_context']['http']['timeout'] = "900";

Google package overwrite the default php.ini parameter.

Sometimes, the page could connect to 'https://adwords.google.com/ap i/adwords/mcm/v201702/ManagedCustomerService?wsdl and sometimes no. If the page connects once, The WSDL cache will contain the same page, and the program will be ok until the code refreshes the cache...


Try this. I hope it helps

$options = [
    'cache_wsdl'     => WSDL_CACHE_NONE,
    'trace'          => 1,
    'stream_context' => stream_context_create(
        [
            'ssl' => [
                'verify_peer'       => false,
                'verify_peer_name'  => false,
                'allow_self_signed' => true
            ]
        ]
    )
];

$client = new SoapClient($url, $options);

This issue can be caused by the libxml entity loader having been disabled.

Try running libxml_disable_entity_loader(false); before instantiating SoapClient.