SoapFault exception: Could not connect to host - php

Question

Sometimes fail to call the web service.
This problem happens all the time.
What could be the problem?
Error:
SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Could not connect to host in
0 [internal function]: SoapClient->__doRequest('<?xml version="...', http://.', '', 1, 0)

Answer 1

The problem was solved.The problem is the cache
ini_set('soap.wsdl_cache_enabled',0);
ini_set('soap.wsdl_cache_ttl',0);

Answer 2

I am adding my comment for completeness, as the solutions listed here did not help me. On PHP 5.6, SoapClient makes the first call to the specified WSDL URL in SoapClient::SoapClient and after connecting to it and receiving the result, it tries to connect to the WSDL specified in the result in:
<soap:address location="http://"/>
And the call fails with error Could not connect to host if the WSDL is different than the one you specified in SoapClient::SoapClient and is unreachable (my case was SoapUI using http://host.local/).
The behaviour in PHP 5.4 is different and it always uses the WSDL in SoapClient::SoapClient.

Answer 3

The host is either down or very slow to respond. If it's slow to respond, you can try increasing the timeout via the connection_timeout option or via the default_socket_timeout setting and see if that reduces the failures.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/soapclient.soapclient.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.php#ini.default-socket-timeout
You can also include error handling as zanlok pointed out to retry a few times. If you have users actually waiting on these SOAP calls then you'll want to queue them up and process them in the background and notify the user when they're finished.

Answer 4

A misconfigured service leaves the default namespace with tempuri.org
This means the connection to the wsdl will work, but the function call will fail.
Stacktrace:
SoapClient->__doRequest('http://example.com...', 'http://tempuri.org....', 2, 0)
To remediate this, you must explicitly set the location using __setLocation()
$this->soapClient = new \SoapClient(WS_URL);
$this->soapClient->__setLocation(WS_URL);

Answer 5

This work for me
$opts = array(
'ssl' => array('verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false)
);
if (!isset($this->soap_client)) {
$this->soap_client = new SoapClient($this->WSDL, array(
'soap_version' => $this->soap_version,
'location' => $this->URL,
'trace' => 1,
'exceptions' => 0,
'stream_context' => stream_context_create($opts)
));

Answer 6

there is a soap config section in your php.ini file, which control the wsdl access cache, may be shown as:
[soap]
; Enables or disables WSDL caching feature.
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=1 ;
Sets the directory name where SOAP extension will put cache files.
soap.wsdl_cache_dir="/tmp"
; (time to live) Sets the number of second while cached file will be used ; instead of original one.
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl=86400
if wsdl file cache is enabled, it may cause this problem when changing wsdl URI in php code.
in this example, you can just delete file start with wsdl- under /tmp directory.
or you just set soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=0; and soap.wsdl_cache_ttl=0;
PHP will fetch the wsdl file every-time you visit the page.

Answer 7

In our case, it was a Ciphers negotiation problem. We were getting this error randomly. We solved our problem by forcing a Cipher like this:
$soapClient = new SoapClient ('http://example.com/soap.asmx?wsdl',
array (
"stream_context" => stream_context_create (
array (
'ssl' => array (
'ciphers'=>'AES256-SHA'
)
)
)
)
);
Looks like PHP wasn't negotiating the same Ciphers at each service call.

Answer 8

In my case it worked after the connection to the wsdl, use the function __setLocation() to define the location again because the call fails with the error:
Could not connect to the host
This happens if the WSDL is different to the one specified in SoapClient::SoapClient.

Answer 9

I hit this issue myself and after much digging I eventually found this bug for ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/965371
specifically
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/965371/comments/62
openssl s_client -connect site.tld:443 failed however openssl s_client -tls1 -connect site.tld:443 gave success. In my particular case part of the output included
New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is RC4-MD5 so I set the php context ssl/cipher value appropriately.

Answer 10

It seems the error SoapFault exception: Could not connect to host can be caused be several different things. In my cased it wasn't caused by proxy, firewall or DNS (I actually had a SOAP connection from the same machine working using nusoap without any special setup).
Finally I found that it was caused by an invalid pem file which I referenced in the local_cert option in my SoapClient contructor.
Solution:
When I removed the certificate chain from the pem file, so it only contained certificate and private key, the SOAP calls started going through.

Answer 11

For me it was a certificate problem. Following worked for me
$context = stream_context_create([
'ssl' => [
// set some SSL/TLS specific options
'verify_peer' => false,
'verify_peer_name' => false,
'allow_self_signed' => true
]
]);
$client = new SoapClient(null, [
'location' => 'https://...',
'uri' => '...',
'stream_context' => $context
]);

Answer 12

In my case service address in wsdl is wrong.
My wsdl url is.
https://myweb.com:4460/xxx_webservices/services/ABC.ABC?wsdl
But service address in that xml result is.
<soap:address location="http://myweb.com:8080/xxx_webservices/services/ABC.ABC/"/>
I just save that xml to local file and change service address to.
<soap:address location="https://myweb.com:4460/xxx_webservices/services/ABC.ABC/"/>
Good luck.

Answer 13

I finally found the reason，its becuse of the library can't find a CA bundle on your system.
PHP >= v5.6 automatically sets verify_peer to true by default. However, not all systems have a known CA bundle on disk .
You can try one of these procedures:
1.If you have a CA file on your system, set openssl.cafile or curl.cainfo in your php.ini to the path of your CA file.
2.Manually specify your SSL CA file location
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($cHandler, CURLOPT_CAINFO, $path-of-your-ca-file);
3.disabled verify_peer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

Answer 14

For those who struggled the same as me with laravel artisan console command that makes a lot of requests to same wsdl of external soap server and then after some time fails with Could not connect to host error.
The problem was because I was creating new SoapClient instance each time before request was made. Do not do that. Create it once and make each request from the same client.
Hope it helps.

Answer 15

For me it was a DNS issue. My VPS's nameservers crapped out, so I switched to Google's by editing my /etc/resolv.conf to be:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Answer 16

If you have a firewall on your server, make sure to open the port used by SOAP.
In my case, I had to open the port 1664.
iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 1664 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t filter -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 1664 -j ACCEPT

Answer 17

if ujava's solution can't help you,you can try to use try/catch to catch this fatal,this works fine on me.
try{
$res = $client->__call('LineStopQueryJson',array('Parameters' => $params));
}catch(SoapFault $e){
print_r($client);
}

Answer 18

With me, this problem in base Address in app.config of WCF service:
When I've used:
<baseAddresses><add baseAddress="http://127.0.0.1:9022/Service/GatewayService"/> </baseAddresses>
it's ok if use .net to connect with public ip or domain.
But when use PHP's SoapClient to connect to "http://[online ip]:9022/Service/GatewayService", it's throw exception "Coulod not connect to host"
I've changed baseAddress to [online ip]:9022 and everything's ok.

Answer 19

Another possible reason for this error is when you are creating and keeping too many connections open.
SoapClient sends the HTTP Header Connection: Keep-Alive by default (through the constructor option keep_alive). But if you create a new SoapClient instance for every call in your queue, this will create and keep-open a new connection everytime. If the calls are executed fast enough, you will eventually run into a limit of 1000 open connections or so and this results in SoapFault: Could not connect to host.
So make sure you create the SoapClient once and reuse it for subsequent calls.

Answer 20

I had a bad php.ini configuration. Verify the path and the certificate validity...
[openssl]
openssl.cafile = "C:/good/phpath/ca-bundle.crt"
Because my new \SoapClient($wsdl) was https !

Answer 21

Just to help other people who encounter this error, the url in <soap:address location="https://some.url"/> had an invalid certificate and caused the error.

Answer 22

For me, this was a problem in the httpd service (Fedora 24). A simple restart did the trick:
sudo service httpd restart

Answer 23

If the connection is through SSL, could be a problem of server instead of client (it is my case).
In PHP versions greater than 5.6 and 7, is important to check the CipherSuite used in server certificate.
There is a full list of ciphers allowed by this versions and a full list of ciphers that do not in this web link: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS#Recommended_Ciphersuite
If the cipher used is not allowed (it is a deprecated algorithm), SoapClient receives "Could not connect to host" and there is no more trace about it.
The cipher used can be checked by clients like SoapUI in the section of "SSL Info", for example.
There is no thread forum treating about this in internet.
Check this out, too: http://php.net/manual/en/migration56.openssl.php

Answer 24

In my case the host requires TLS 1.2 so needed to enforce using the crypto_method ssl param.
$client = new SoapClient($wsdl,
array(
'location' => $location,
'keep_alive' => false,
"stream_context" => stream_context_create([
'ssl' => [
'crypto_method' => STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLSv1_2_CLIENT,
]
]),
'trace' => 1, // used for debug
)
);

Answer 25

In my case, disabled SELINUX allow PHP to call my WebService.
I run PHP in FPM with Apache2
SELinux status :
# sestatus
Disable SELinux :
setenforce 0
Enable SELinux :
# setenforce 1
Permanent disable :
edit this file /etc/selinux/config

Answer 26

Version check helped me OpenSSL. OpenSSL_1_0_1f not supported TSLv.1_2 !
Check version and compatibility with TSLv.1_2 on github openssl/openssl
. And regenerate your certificate with new openssl
openssl pkcs12 -in path.p12 -out newfile.pem
P.S I don’t know what they were minus, but this solution will really help.

Answer 27

That most likely refers to a connection issue. It could be either that your internet connection was down, or the web service you are trying to use was down. I suggest using this service to see if the web service is online or not: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/