Category Archives: Tutorial/Guide

The Use of SOAP Action with WSF/PHP

Posted on November 25, 2008 by dimuthu

In SOAP 1.1, the SOAP action is mentioned as a compulsory HTTP header. In practice it was used to identify the operation for a given request which we identify by the term ‘dispatching operations’. As of SOAP 1.2, the SOAP … Continue reading →

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Sending Binary with Apache Axis2/C ADB

Posted on November 24, 2008 by dimuthu

Axis2/C ADB is a C language binding to the XML schema. ADB object model represents an XML specific to a given schema in a WSDL. You can use the Axis2 codegen tool to generate ADB codes for your WSDL and … Continue reading →

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WS-SecurityPolicy With PHP

Posted on November 19, 2008 by dimuthu

WS-SecurityPolicy specification defines standards for defining security policies for your web service. WSF/PHP allows you to declare your security policies according to these standards. You can take one of following approaches to associate policies to your web service or client. … Continue reading →

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Signing SOAP Headers In PHP Web Services

Posted on November 18, 2008 by dimuthu

Non-Repudiation and Integrity are two main security issues addressed by signing a message. If you are writing a web service or a service consumer in PHP you can use the WSF/PHP toolkit to sign messages. Here is how you can … Continue reading →

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Detect Replay Attacks In to Your PHP Web Service

Posted on November 17, 2008 by dimuthu

Replay attack is a common kind of attack, the hackers are using to break the security of a web service. If you can intercept one soap message while it is transferring through the wire, you can replay that message to … Continue reading →

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RESTful URL Mapping in WSF/PHP

Posted on November 16, 2008 by dimuthu

In a RESTful design, choose of URLs for resources are really important. The URL uniquely represents a resource. Service consumers can change some parts in the URL to access different other resources. So it is clear that the URL consists … Continue reading →

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Mashup Server Screencasts

Posted on November 14, 2008 by dimuthu

Jonathan Marsh, VP of Business Development of WSO2, recently released three screencasts explaining the features of WSO2 Mashup Server and how you can use these features in building your own Mashups. The first screencast targeted at newbies to introduce the … Continue reading →

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XML Schema Simple Types & How WSDL2PHP Convert Them To PHP

Posted on November 13, 2008 by dimuthu

As many of other languages, XML schema too have data types. Basically it can be categorized in to two groups. Simple Types Complex Types The different between these 2 types are so easy to identify. Say you have a schema … Continue reading →

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WSF/PHP Test Cases Explained

Posted on November 11, 2008 by dimuthu

WSO2 WSF/PHP comes with a comprehensive set of test cases. It covers the most of the basic/concrete scenarios supported by WSF/PHP. You can find these test cases inside the “src/tests” directory of WSF/PHP source package. Or you can find the … Continue reading →

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WSF/PHP Samples Explained

Posted on November 7, 2008 by dimuthu

Here is a simple categorization of the WSF/PHP samples. You can access all the wsf/php samples from http://labs.wso2.org/wsf/php/solutions/samples/index.html. Sample Category Example Client Source Code Example Service Source Code Online Demo Beginners echo_client.php echo_service.php Demo REST echo_client_rest.php echo_service_with_rest.php Demo WSDL Mode … Continue reading →

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