Question

I have a PHP SOAP server (using nuSOAP with wsdl) that send the content of a html page. Of course, the HTML can be coded with differents encoding and here is when the problems appear. If I used a PHP SOAP client I can send the encoding like this:

$clienteSOAP = new SoapClient ("http://test.mine.com/wsdl/filemanager?wsdl",
                               array ('encoding' => 'ISO-8859-15'));
$clienteSOAP->__soapCall ("Test.uploadHTML",
             array (file_get_contents ('/home/КОЛЛЕКЦИЯ_РОДНИК_ПРЕМИУМ.html')));

And if I put the correct encoding, has never failed so far. But when I use a C# client, how can I put the encoding in the web service petition? In C# the code is:

          System.IO.StreamReader html = new System.IO.StreamReader (
                     "C:\\Documents and Settings\\КОЛЛЕКЦИЯ_РОДНИК_ПРЕМИУМ.html"
                     ,System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-15"));
          string contenido = html.ReadToEnd();
          html.Close();

          Test.FileManager upload = new Test.FileManager();
          string resultado = upload.TestUploadHTML (contenido);

Test.FileManager is a Web reference of the wsdl, and when I see the “upload html” some characters aren’t correct.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

nusoap internally uses the php function xml_parser_create, that only supports: ISO-8859-1, UTF-8 and US-ASCII. For this reason, this library don’t works well with other encoding. Great PacHecoPe…

UPDATE: The best option, in my case, is read the archive in its original encoding and transform it to utf-8:

System.IO.StreamReader html = new System.IO.StreamReader (
                 "C:\\Documents and Settings\\КОЛЛЕКЦИЯ_РОДНИК_ПРЕМИУМ.html"
                 ,System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-15"));

string contenido = html.ReadToEnd();
html.Close();

System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoder = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes (contenido);
string contenidoUTF8 = encoder.GetString(bytes);

upload.RequestEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("UTF-8");

Test.FileManager upload = new Test.FileManager();
string resultado = upload.TestUploadHTML (contenidoUTF8);

UPDATE2: With encoding that not supported in UTF-8 like big5, don’t work very well the above code. For this reason, it’s better don’t make the transform to UTF-8 and set the parameter with the content of html like base64Binary, in the wsdl.