Can't SOAP compressed PHP output

Question

Hi everybody (please excuse syntax faults, not yet fluent english),

I'm having trouble getting my SOAPs streams compressed : either I'm having a "Can't uncompress compressed response" or "looks like we got no XML document" error.

I'm using PHP 5.3.3 Suhoshin and apache2 on a Debian.

I cannot debug deeply or snif/snort network frames since I'm working on a colleague's app in which the client and the server are both remote.

So, I tried the following :

• php.ini output compression handler
  • ob_gzhandler (fail)
  • zlib.output_handler (fail)
• soap options (all failed)
  • SOAP_COMPRESSION_ACCEPT | SOAP_COMPRESSION_DEFLATE | 5 (from there : https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=47925)
  • the same without the '| 5'
  • replacing SOAP_COMPRESSION_DEFLATE by SOAP_COMPRESSION_GZIP

Answer 1

Is zlib enabled on your install of php?

I'm having similar trouble. I have 2 systems, one where it work, and one where it doesn't.

On the one that works, if I call phpinfo() I get

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Configure Command =>  …(lots of stuff)… '--enable-zip' …(more stuff)…

and later on

zlib

ZLib Support => enabled
Stream Wrapper support => compress.zlib://
Stream Filter support => zlib.inflate, zlib.deflate
Compiled Version => 1.2.5
Linked Version => 1.2.5

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But on the one that doesn't work, the '--enable-zip' was not there, and there is no zlib section.