SoapClient set custom HTTP Header

Question

I am doing some work writing a PHP-based SOAP client application that uses the SOAP libraries native to PHP5. I need to send a an HTTP cookie and an additional HTTP header as part of the request. The cookie part is no problem:

Code:

$client = new SoapClient($webServiceURI, array("exceptions" => 0, "trace" => 1, "encoding" => $phpInternalEncoding));
$client->__setCookie($kkey, $vvalue);

My problem is the HTTP header. I was hoping there would have been a function named

__setHeader

or

__setHttpHeader

in the SOAP libraries. But no such luck.

Anyone else dealt with this? Is there a workaround? Would a different SOAP library be easier to work with? Thanks.

_{(I found this unanswerd question here http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php?topic=125387.0, I copied it b/c i've the same issue)}

Answer 1

Try setting a stream context for the soap client:

$client = new SoapClient($webServiceURI, array(
    "exceptions" => 0, 
    "trace" => 1, 
    "encoding" => $phpInternalEncoding,
    'stream_context' => stream_context_create(array(
        'http' => array(
            'header' => 'SomeCustomHeader: value'
        ),
    )),
));