BUG: code snippet returned is not valid

flixya

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Aug 27, 2009, 9:35:42 AM8/27/09

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I haven't checked how long this has been the case, but the code-
snippets returned are not valid. It seems that the less-than
characters (<) are missing.

See returned snippet:

<h2>Method Called</h2>method:
getSyndicationService param:
 <ns1:getSyndicationService xmlns:ns1="http://
www.google.com/api/adsense/v3"> <synServiceType> <value>ContentAds </value> </synServiceType> </ns1:getSyndicationService> 

<h2>Service Id</h2>
synServiceId: ca-pub-0503594684327159 
<h2>Request</h2>
<pre>POST /api/adsense/v3/AccountService HTTP/1.0
Host: www.google.com
User-Agent: NuSOAP/0.7.2 (1.94)
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: "urn:getSyndicationService"
Content-Length: 726

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://
schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://
www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://
www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-
ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
xmlns:ns0="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/
v3"> <SOAP-
ENV:Header> <developer_email>XXXXXX </
developer_email> <developer_password>XXXXX </
developer_password> <client_id>ca-
pub-0503594684327159 </client_id> </SOAP-
ENV:Header> <SOAP-
ENV:Body> <ns1:getSyndicationService 
xmlns:ns1="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/
v3"> <synServiceType> <value>ContentAds </
value> </synServiceType> </
ns1:getSyndicationService> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-
ENV:Envelope></pre>

<h2>Response</h2>
<pre>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:31:40 GMT
Expires: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:31:40 GMT
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: GFE/2.0

 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?
> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://
schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
"> <soapenv:Body> <ns:getSyndicationServiceResponse 
xmlns:ns="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/
v3"> <return> <type> <value>ContentAds </
value> </type> <id>ca-
pub-0503594684327159 </id> </return> </
ns:getSyndicationServiceResponse> </soapenv:Body> </
soapenv:Envelope></pre>

<h2>Method Called</h2>method: generateAdCode param:
 <ns1:generateAdCode xmlns:ns1="http://
www.google.com/api/adsense/v3"> <synServiceId>ca-pub-0503594684327159 </synServiceId> <adStyle> <name>demoStyle </name> <borderColor>#0000FF </borderColor> <backgroundColor>#FFFFFF </backgroundColor> <titleColor>#FF0000 </titleColor> <textColor>#00FF00 </textColor> <urlColor>#FFFF00 </urlColor> </adStyle> <adUnitType> <value>TextOnly </value> </adUnitType> <layout> <value>728x90 </value> </layout> <alternate>#FFFFFF </alternate> <isFramedPage
type="xsd:boolean">false </
isFramedPage> <channelName xsi:nil="true"/
> <cornerStyles> <value>DEFAULT </
value> </cornerStyles> </ns1:generateAdCode> 

<h2>Snippet</h2>
<pre>script type="text/javascript">!--
google_ad_client="pub-0503594684327159";
google_ad_host="pub-3154006528813426";
google_alternate_color="FFFFFF";
google_ad_width=728;
google_ad_height=90;
google_ad_format="728x90_as";
google_ad_type="text";
google_color_border="0000FF";
google_color_bg="FFFFFF";
google_color_link="FF0000";
google_color_url="FFFF00";
google_color_text="00FF00";
//-->/script>

script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/
show_ads.js">
/script>
</pre>

Regards,
Florian

flixya

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Aug 27, 2009, 9:52:40 AM8/27/09

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The issue seems to be that the return value is following:

<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

The less-than characters already are html-encoded.
We are using nusoap.php,v 1.94 2005/08/04.

Regards,
Florian

On 27 Aug., 15:35, flixya <fli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't checked how long this has been the case, but the code-
> snippets returned are not valid. It seems that the less-than
> characters (<) are missing.
>
> See returned snippet:
>
> <h2>Method Called</h2>method:
> getSyndicationService param:

> <ns1:getSyndicationService xmlns:ns1="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/v3"> <synServiceType> <value>ContentAds </value> </synServiceType> </ns1:getSyndicationService>

>
> <h2>Service Id</h2>
> synServiceId: ca-pub-0503594684327159 
> <h2>Request</h2>
> <pre>POST /api/adsense/v3/AccountService HTTP/1.0
> Host:www.google.com
> User-Agent: NuSOAP/0.7.2 (1.94)
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
> SOAPAction: "urn:getSyndicationService"
> Content-Length: 726
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://

> schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-
> ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

> <ns1:generateAdCode xmlns:ns1="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/v3"> <synServiceId>ca-pub-0503594684327159 </synServiceId> <adStyle> <name>demoStyle </name> <borderColor>#0000FF </borderColor> <backgroundColor>#FFFFFF </backgroundColor> <titleColor>#FF0000 </titleColor> <textColor>#00FF00 </textColor> <urlColor>#FFFF00 </urlColor> </adStyle> <adUnitType> <value>TextOnly </value> </adUnitType> <layout> <value>728x90 </value> </layout> <alternate>#FFFFFF </alternate> <isFramedPage

Google AdSense API Support Team

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Aug 27, 2009, 1:57:27 PM8/27/09

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Florian,

I know we already handled this over email, but just for the sake of
anyone else reading: ad code responses have always been like this.
Since we're returning an XML document, we need to ensure that our ad
code response is parsed as a complete string, instead of a few invalid
XML elements, which is how it would be perceived if we had retained
the < > groupings. We accomplish this by using < instead of '<'
and expect the developer to reverse the conversion before injecting
the code into the publisher's page.

Cheers,
Wes
AdSense API

> > <ns1:getSyndicationService xmlns:ns1="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/v3"> <synServiceType> <value>ContentAds </value></synServiceType> </ns1:getSyndicationService>

> > v3"> <return> <type> <value>ContentAds</

> > value> </type> <id>ca-
> > pub-0503594684327159 </id> </return> </
> > ns:getSyndicationServiceResponse> </soapenv:Body> </
> > soapenv:Envelope></pre>
>
> > <h2>Method Called</h2>method: generateAdCode param:

> > <ns1:generateAdCode xmlns:ns1="http://www.google.com/api/adsense/v3"> <synServiceId>ca-pub-0503594684327159 </synServiceId> <adStyle> <name>demoStyle </name> <borderC olor>#0000FF </borderColor> <backgroundColor>#FFFFFF</backgroundColor> <titleColor>#FF0000 </titleColor& gt; <textColor>#00FF00 </textColor> <urlColor>#F FFF00 </urlColor> </adStyle> <adUnitType> &lt ;value>TextOnly </value> </adUnitType> <layout&g t; <value>728x90 </value> </layout> <alter nate>#FFFFFF </alternate> <isFramedPage

Florian

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Aug 27, 2009, 2:26:55 PM8/27/09

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Thanks.

I updated the server the other day. Perhaps a new version of some
library is causing this issue.

What happens is that the html-encoded less-than is removed by soap for
some reason.

This is the original code:
$response = $client->call('generateAdCode', $parameters, $namespace);
$snippet = htmlentities($response['return'],ENT_QUOTES); // html-
encode the whole thing

Now I'm just using a workaround that parses the snippet out of the
$client->responseData.

Regards,
Florian

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