Comments on: PHP SoapClient Could Not Connect to Host

By: David

David — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:09:09 +0000

I had this problem making SOAP calls that required client certificates. I had forgotten to set the correct permissions on the cert to allow apache read access to it.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:01:33 +0000

If you are using SOAP over HTTPS (SSL) also check the following:

php -i | grep ssl
Registered Stream Socket Transports => tcp, udp, unix, udg, ssl, sslv3, sslv2, tls

If it doesn’t say SSL in any of these then check for the SSL extension – it will not be loaded.

This will also cause the "Could not connect to host" issue.

This error is not very informative – while true that it cannot connect to host it could at least say "Cannot use SSL".

By: Tom Kirkpatrick

Tom Kirkpatrick — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:58:40 +0000

Exactly what I needed. Thanks.

By: admin

admin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:11:33 +0000

Are you sure that all URLs inside the WSDL are available from your local machine when running the code?

You can try pinging each URL or putting the URL into a web browser, just to check that it exists.

So for example, is the URL:

http://localhost:54749/EBankServices/Service.asmx

Available to ping or in a web browser? The error usually means a URL in the WDSL is not reachable.

By: azade

azade — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:12:52 +0000

hi,
i create a web service with asp.net ,save the wsdl in c:\wamp\www as Service.wsdl
the location in wsdl is
‘http://localhost:54749/EBankServices/Service.asmx’

and use this code :
try {
$client = new SoapClient("Service.wsdl");
$result = $client->HelloWorld(‘azade’);
} catch (SoapFault $fault) {
trigger_error("SOAP Fault: (faultcode: {$fault->faultcode}, faultstring: {$fault->faultstring})", E_USER_ERROR);
}
and the error:
Fatal error: SOAP Fault: (faultcode: HTTP, faultstring: Could not connect to host) in C:\wamp\www\k.php on line 6

how do i solve my problem?
how do i do things that u say?
thanks