Consuming a PHP Webservice

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Hi,

as a background I have an Windows application developed with VS 2003 (c#)
that needs to transfer securely data to a MySQL database located on a Linux
server.

I have created a PHP webservice that will receive an xml file with all the
data to update an encrypted database. This way all database logic will remain
on the Linux server. The web service works OK using a testing PHP client.

The windows application will create the xml file to be transferred to the
web service to consume the webservice.

I have been reading about the ServicePoint class, proxies and WSDL, but I
feel kind of lost as I am new to web services.
Why do I need a proxy?
Can I just connect directly to the PHP web service to consume it?

I found a console sample on MSDN and try to use it to test the webservice on
Windows
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcreatingconsoleapplicationclient.asp

I tryed to use WSDL, but got an error saying "the HTML file specified does
not contain webservice discovery information".

I called it as:
WSDL http://linuxServer/WebService.php?wsdl

I will appreciate any guidance.

Carlos Lozano
.

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