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Errata for PHP Web Services

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted by	Date submitted
Printed	Page 3 numbered list, point number 2	"and recceives the page with the search box" "recceives" misspelled.	tcordes	Apr 11, 2015
PDF	Page 5 several paragraphs	The curl examples call http://requestb.in, which is an API checking service. The calls to the example page result in "not found". E.g.: curl -X POST http://requestb.in/example Not found	Gary Sprung	Jan 21, 2014
Printed	Page 5 Bottom or page	Broken reference — “The examples here use [a site that is set up to log requests made to it, which is perfect for exploring how different API requests are seen by a server.” Updated link / URL — requestbin.com Requestb.in is no longer supported. There is a new version of Request Bin at requestbin.com and it has a bunch more features.	Anonymous	Jun 10, 2019
Printed	Page 9 2nd text paragraph	"... passing the data we want to send as an array to the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS option." The example referred to by the above is, in fact, a string created by json_encode, not a PHP array. Either encoded strings or arrays are allowed, but the example shown is clearly using the former. It might be useful to note here that both are allowed.	tcordes	May 03, 2015
Printed	Page 16 2nd-last text paragraph, 2nd-last sentence	"There is no equivalent to $_PUT superglobal..." Doesn't really make sense here. You could replace "to $_PUT" with "for the $_PUT" or "to the $_POST". It's drawing equivalency between $_POST (that was just shown) and $_PUT (which doesn't exist), so it doesn't make sense as stated.	tcordes	May 03, 2015
PDF	Page 20 title request headers	on page number 20 in the title Request headers: there is last option Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,+;q=0.3 in this line instead of + you should replace * then only it is right format	Anonymous	May 29, 2013
PDF	Page 26 Last paragraph	Incorrect PHP syntax: $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_PASSWORD"] Should be: $_SERVER["PHP_AUTH_PW"]	Anonymous	Nov 19, 2014
PDF	Page 26 Whole header authorization section	It should be noted that the header authorization method, discussed in this section, does not work when the PHP Server API is set to CGI, so check your PHP settings before you decide to use the authorization method discussed in this section.	Anonymous	Nov 23, 2014
Printed	Page 34 4th-last text paragraph, 1st sentence	"is that it a simple" -> "is that it's a simple" or similar	tcordes	May 03, 2015
PDF	Page 48 wsdl heading's 2nd paragraph	WDSL should be changed to WSDL at the start of line	vijayan	May 30, 2013