XML POST Proxy Script using PHP and libcurl

 
<?php
 
#
#
// Make sure the user is posting
#
if ( $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST' ) {
 
	// Read the POST input from stdin
	$postText = trim(file_get_contents('php://input'));
 
} else {
 
    exit("We only offer POST");
 
};
 
# The client needs to set a SOAPTarget header pointing to the URL of the Webservice you need
# in jquery you use the beforeSend: ajax option and create a function such as
# function(xhr) { xhr.setRequestHeader( "SOAPTarget", "http://yourserver.com/your/webservice/endpoint") };
#
	$url=$_SERVER['HTTP_SOAPTARGET'];
 
# start your curl session
	$session = curl_init($url);
 
# set the libcurl options
    curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postText);
 
# soapaction  header _must_ be set
	curl_setopt ($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('SOAPAction: ""',
                                                                                "Content-Type: text/xml"));
	curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
	curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
	curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1);
	curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_FRESH_CONNECT, 1);
 
// Make the call and store the reply in $xml
	$xml = curl_exec($session);
 
 /* foreach($_SERVER as $h=>$v)
    if(ereg('HTTP_(.+)',$h,$hp))
      echo "<li>$h = $v</li>\n";;
*/
 
# tell the client to expect an xml reply
	header("Content-Type: text/xml");
 
# then send the the xml reply from the webservice
	echo $xml;
 
# close the session to free up resources
	curl_close($session);
 
/* This dumps all the session variables from PHP woo hoo! var_dump(get_defined_vars());  */
 
?>