Expected error when accessing the SDK URL at https://<vCenter-IP-or-FQDN>/sdk

Products

• VMware vCenter Server
• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• You cannot access vCenter Server URL at: https://<vCenter-IP-or-FQDN>/sdk
• When you access the URL in a browser, you see the error:

       
       

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 7.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 8.0.x
VMware vCenter Server 9.0.x ( VCF 9.0 )

Resolution

The service available at https://<vCenter-IP-or-FQDN>/sdk is not an HTML web server and therefore cannot render or serve web pages directly.

This endpoint is specifically designed to operate over the SOAP protocol (an XML-based protocol) and only responds to SOAP-based API requests.

For example, a valid SOAP request will serve the https://<vCenter-IP-or-FQDN>/sdk/vimService.wsdl page, where vimService.wsdl is the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file that defines the available VMware Web Services interfaces.

For additional details about the SDK and its usage, refer to the documentation for your vSphere version under the vSphere Management SDK , VCF Java SDK , VCF Python SDK.