web-services

Is it possible to decompress SharpZipLib compressed response via PHP?

Environment: Linux / MySQL / PHP Problem: While connected to a webservice, I am getting a response that is compressed with the SharpZipLib .NET library. As of yet, I have not been able to find a way to decompress these responses outside of a .NET environment. Does anyone know a way to decompress this in a linux/php environment? Thanks!...

Securing an "open" web service without HTTPS or private shared key

I am producing a web service which will allow any third party "device" to communicate with it. Each device has a reasonably unusual string to identify itself and uses the web service to store data against this id. However, this allows someone who wishes to game the service to scan through and guess device ids and store malicious data aga...

Site / book / resource to learn web services in java

I m new to java web services. since there are so many standards and so many things.I am unsure where to start..this is for all the professionals out there, if any of you know any of the resources which will help me get started ..please send out your suggestions.I dont know what to go for. jax-rs, restful, soap? what to go for and where t...

Difference in sending HTTP status codes from php

what is the difference from setting the responce status in php header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found"); and header("Status: 404 Not Found"); What is the difference from the client point of view (aka browser or a client implementation for RESTful WS). I understood that the second one has to do something with CGI. ...

IPhone app and Web Services

Hi guys, I'm evaluating the possibility of outsource an iPhone app I have in mind. The app will basically allow different users to share the same information across their phones. I'm thinking in having a unique DB in a web server and store all the info there to help the syncing. I can program the web service and all the CRUD myself sin...

Can I call a webservice from a Controller Action in ASP.Net MVC?

Can I call a webservice from a Controller Action in ASP.Net MVC? public ActionResult Index() { PersonObject person = new Person("Sam"); //Call a webservice which is located in the same app under /Services/General.asmx/WebMethod and pass it person } Basically I want to do this from my Action... $.ajax({ ...

Load data from Webservice (asmx) to jqgrid. Please help me

I create a Sample to test jqgrid. GetDataService.asmx: using System; using System.Collections; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; using System.Xml.Linq; using System.Web.Script.Services; using System.Web.Script.Serializatio...

Difference between Window Service, WCF Service application and ASP.NET web service application?

Hi, I don't know this is a right forum for my question or not? I am new in Web Services. Today i just open VS2008 and found 3 type of SERVICE project 1. Window Service 2. WCF Service application 3. ASP.NET web service application Please help me to find out the difference between these three project? When should we decide which typ...

ASP.NET Webservice calling WCF service

Dear Balaji, I have almost the same problem as you have described in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1503242/calling-webservice-from-wcf-service. I have a asp.net webservice that calls a WCF service. On my development machine this is working fine. But if i deploy my ASP.net Webservice it is not working. Both the ASP Webservice en W...

rails: how to send the xml page result in a zip file?

Hello everybody, I have a problem with my webservice! As I render xml files just like a web page, the content gets loaded very slowly... Is it possible to render the xml in a zip format? Thanks for any hints concerning this topic! Markus ...

android webservices method getting null parameter value while calling

when I invoke webservices method working fine without parameters. But with parameters I am getting null in the inside the webservice method. Here my code and wsdl file private static final String METHOD_NAME = "getCityList"; private static final String SOAP_ACTION = "http://service.country.com/" + METHOD_NAME; private static final ...

java/ soapfault problem in web services

Hi, I have the following problem: I am using SAAJ for web services. I have a SOAPMessage with the following soap fault: <S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt; <S:Body> <S:Fault xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"&gt; <faultcode>S:Server</faultcode> <faultstring>java....

Error updating Sharepoint List item, when called from web service.

I'm using ajax to call a webservice which updates a sharepoint list. It works when I call the code from unit tests, but running the code in a browser causes an exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. at Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl.SPWebEnsureSPCo...

how to send a json string to a .NET REST service from java?

hi, i am trying to send a json string from my android client to my .net Rest service... can anyone help me in this issue? HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpPost post = new HttpPost("http://myURL"); JSONObject json = new JSONObject(); json.put("name", "i am sample"); StringEntity str = new StringEntity(json.toString()...

Web service call with Query Ajax hangs.

Before I start posting a ton of code I think I may be able to explain my situation more logically. I have eight drop downs on a page being populated in exactly the same way except they are using different stored procs. The ones that return a LOT of rows (around 44000 but each rows is only about an average of 5 characters) are the ones th...

Web-service authentication management

Hello, I'll have to develop some private web-services, so I need a way to authenticate the users in order for each service to be able to know if a request is valid and to maintain some session states. I'd like to have a central authentication service with some simple operations like "logIn(login, password)" (that uses a directory like ...

where to publish web service ?

Where we need to deploy or publish wsdl so that consumer can get the service? ...

Returning a user friendly error message to client, from a web service

I need to return an error message to the client, if they have entered invalid data when calling my web service. So if my code is: If Not IsNumeric(strOrderID) Then Throw New SoapException("Invalid Order ID", SoapException.ClientFaultCode) End If I get a web page saying: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Invalid Or...

Send xml to web service and get response.

I have an endpoint to a web service, I have a .wsdl file with the information in it, as well as a .xsd file. I have created a web reference application using the endpoint in VS. Now I want to send an xml file as a string and get some form of response from the service. HOW can I do this? I need a complete waalkthrough in terms of VS. Than...

How do I stop IIS mangling my error codes for Soap faults

We provide a webservice to a third-party that expects a 500 error when an application level error occurs. When this happens we construct a piece of custom XML with the error details (eventcode etc) and return this as the synchronous response. However, it seems that IIS is intercepting the 500 error and replacing our custom XML with a "...