RE: FN-FORUM: SOAP & Web Services Help

date posted 1st March 2007 15:24

Thanks for the reply but I am literally passing the string 'TEST' so there=

is no special characters=2E I've tried serializing the string, encoding it=
to
base64 & tried it within CDATA tags and the same error is returned=2E

Original Message:
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From: Andy Henderson [EMAIL REMOVED]
Date: 1 Mar 2007 15:24:00 -0000
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: SOAP & Web Services Help



[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I have written a PHP client which generates a valid SOAP message to
> send to our web services server=2E However I am getting the error back:=20=

>=20
> "An exception occurred while processing the internal request handler
> call:=20
> com=2Epercussion=2Eerror=2EPSException: org=2Ew3c=2Edom=2EDOMException:
> INVALID=5FCHARACTER=5FERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is
> specified=2E"=20
>=20
> Other web services have worked but this is the first one which
> requires plain text within the body of the SOAP message rather than
> as an attribute=2E e=2Eg=2E something like has
> been used before and works but TEST hasn't=2E =20=

>=20
> I think this is where the failure is=2E Does the text need to be
> encoded in a special way to send across HTTP=3F I have tried base64 &
> url encoding=2E =20
>=20
>=20
> Any help would be great,
> Thanks
> Mark=2E
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It sounds like you might be trying to pass &, < or > in the 'TEST' part of=

your message=2E Is that right=3F If so, you'll need to pass those charac=
ters
in a different way because they confuse the XML parser=2E

Translate:
& to &
< to <
> to >

Or place the content inside

Andy


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