SOAP and wdsl

[Zander]

Hi,
I'm having a bit of trouble with SOAP and wdsl. I was wondering if anyone can
clarify when i'm going wrong..!

I'm trying to connect to a webservice with coldfusion, the address ends with a
php extension and when visited the xml appears as in code sample attached.

Am I right in assuming that this is not in a format that is readable by
coldfusion, and would there be anyway of using it?

I'm currently lead to believe that the code the php file gives isn't the wdsl
file and i'd need one to interface the two, is that correct?

If I try using the php file directly coldfusion gives the following:

Could not generate stub objects for web service invocation.
WSDLException (at /SOAP-ENV:Envelope): faultCode=INVALID_WSDL: Expected
element '{soap_url_here/}definitions'.:
(NB: the service does work with PHP and nusoap)

Any help would be really appreciated!
Cheers,
Alex



<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
- <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:si="http://soapinterop.org/xsd">
- <SOAP-ENV:Body>
- <SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>Server</faultcode>
<faultactor />
<faultstring>error in msg parsing: xml was empty, didn't
parse!</faultstring>
- <detail>
<soapVal xsi:type="xsd:string" />
</detail>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

[Mr Black]

The message that appears is the response to your click. It says that nothing
happened, because nothing was provided. The service expects a SOAP message
from you.

This is not a WSDL, but actual response. WSDL is a description of a service.

Try http://<your-URL>.php?wsdl. Should return WSDL.