How to access a PHP Web Service from ASP.Net?

Question

I am trying use a web service in a C# ASP.Net Web Application. The service is built in PHP and is located on some remote server not under my control so I cant modify it to add

Answer 1

As referenced that - you will have to hand code your "proxy" for this web service.

One example of manually making a web service call - you may have to tweak the method some.

private string MakeWebServiceCall(string methodName, string requestXmlString)
        {
            WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create("https://subreg.forpsi.com/robot2/subreg_command.php");

            HttpWebRequest httpRequest = (HttpWebRequest)webRequest;
            httpRequest.Method = "POST";
            httpRequest.ContentType = "text/xml";
            httpRequest.Headers.Add("SOAPAction: https://subreg.forpsi.com/robot2/subreg_command.php/" + methodName);
            Stream requestStream = httpRequest.GetRequestStream();

            //Create Stream and Complete Request
            StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(requestStream);
            streamWriter.Write(String.Format(this.GetSoapString(), requestXmlString));
            streamWriter.Close();

            //Get the Response
            WebResponse webResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse();
            Stream responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
            StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(responseStream);

            //Read the response into an xml document
            System.Xml.XmlDocument soapResonseXMLDocument = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
            soapResonseXMLDocument.LoadXml(streamReader.ReadToEnd());

            //return only the xml representing the response details (inner request)
            return soapResonseXMLDocument.GetElementsByTagName(methodName + "Result")[0].InnerXml;
        }

I would recommend creating xsd's which can be used to generate objects (using xsd.exe) and then you can serialized/deserialize responses and requests to actually objects.

EDIT: GetSoapString() method

private string GetSoapString()
        {
            StringBuilder soapRequest = new StringBuilder("");
            soapRequest.Append("{0}");
            soapRequest.Append("");
            return soapRequest.ToString();
        }

For Steve's Reference

Call one looks like:

123

Response:

   
      
         false