One word: Don’t. OK obviously that isn’t a real answer. But still SOAP should be avoided at all costs. 😉 Is it possible to add a proxy server between the iPhone and the web service? Perhaps something that converts REST into SOAP for you? You could try CSOAP, a SOAP library that depends on libxml2 … Read more
Diagnose Look up the following inside your script file phpinfo(); If you can’t find Soap Client set to enabled like so: Fix Do the following: Locate php.ini in your apache bin folder, I.e Apache/bin/php.ini Remove the ; from the beginning of extension=php_soap.dll Restart your Apache server Look up your phpinfo(); again and check if you … Read more
REST is almost always going to be faster. The main advantage of SOAP is that it provides a mechanism for services to describe themselves to clients, and to advertise their existence. REST is much more lightweight and can be implemented using almost any tool, leading to lower bandwidth and shorter learning curve. However, the clients … Read more
This is the simplest JavaScript SOAP Client I can create. <html> <head> <title>SOAP JavaScript Client Test</title> <script type=”text/javascript”> function soap() { var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); xmlhttp.open(‘POST’, ‘https://somesoapurl.com/’, true); // build SOAP request var sr=”<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>” + ‘<soapenv:Envelope ‘ + ‘xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” ‘ + ‘xmlns:api=”http://127.0.0.1/Integrics/Enswitch/API” ‘ + ‘xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” ‘ + ‘xmlns:soapenv=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”>’ + ‘<soapenv:Body>’ + ‘<api:some_api_call … Read more
Update (2016): If you only need SOAP client, there is well maintained library called zeep. It supports both Python 2 and 3 🙂 Update: Additionally to what is mentioned above, I will refer to Python WebServices page which is always up-to-date with all actively maintained and recommended modules to SOAP and all other webservice types. … Read more
I built one of the first SOAP servers, including code generation and WSDL generation, from the original spec as it was being developed, when I was working at Hewlett-Packard. I do NOT recommend using SOAP for anything. The acronym “SOAP” is a lie. It is not Simple, it is not Object-oriented, it defines no Access … Read more
You can expose the service in two different endpoints. the SOAP one can use the binding that support SOAP e.g. basicHttpBinding, the RESTful one can use the webHttpBinding. I assume your REST service will be in JSON, in that case, you need to configure the two endpoints with the following behaviour configuration <endpointBehaviors> <behavior name=”jsonBehavior”> … Read more
Android does not provide any sort of SOAP library. You can either write your own, or use something like kSOAP 2. As you note, others have been able to compile and use kSOAP2 in their own projects, but I haven’t had to. Google has shown, to date, little interest in adding a SOAP library to … Read more
Simple explanation about SOAP and REST SOAP – “Simple Object Access Protocol” SOAP is a method of transferring messages, or small amounts of information, over the Internet. SOAP messages are formatted in XML and are typically sent using HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol). Rest – Representational state transfer Rest is a simple way of sending and … Read more
Unfortunately, there are a lot of misinformation and misconceptions around REST. Not only your question and the answer by @cmd reflect those, but most of the questions and answers related to the subject on Stack Overflow. SOAP and REST can’t be compared directly, since the first is a protocol (or at least tries to be) … Read more