SOAP PHP fault parsing WSDL: failed to load external entity?

Question

I\'m trying to run a web service using PHP & SOAP, but all I\'m getting so far is this:

(SoapFault)[2] message which states: \'SOAP-ERROR: Parsing

Answer 1

I am using selinux and with the following shell command (as root) I was able to allow PHP to make SOAP calls:

sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on

Answer 2

If you use docker there is a chance you get error because of OpenSSL default security level.

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

After that change I can run SoapClient without any additional options

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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

Answer 3

Put this code above any Soap call:

libxml_disable_entity_loader(false);

Answer 4

Just had a similar problem trying to use SoapClient. Everything was working fine but in production, sometimes on page refresh, I would get the "SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from .." error.

I was using the params:

new \SoapClient($WSDL, array('cache_wsdl' => WSDL_CACHE_NONE, 'trace' => true, "exception" => 0)); 

Removing all the params worked for me:

new \SoapClient($WSDL); 

Answer 5

try this. works for me

$options = array(
    'cache_wsdl' => 0,
    'trace' => 1,
    'stream_context' => stream_context_create(array(
          'ssl' => array(
               'verify_peer' => false,
                'verify_peer_name' => false,
                'allow_self_signed' => true
          )
    ))

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

Answer 6

I had the same problem.

This php setting solved my problem:

allow_url_fopen -> 1