Informational: Expected error when accessing the SDK URL at https://servername/sdk
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Article ID: 342938
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Products
VMware vCenter ServerVMware vSphere ESXi
Issue/Introduction
You cannot access the SDK URL athttps://servername/sdk
When you access the URL on Internet Explorer 6, the page tries to load but is unsuccessful
When you access the URL on Internet Explorer 7, you see the error:
HTTP 404 Not Found
Environment
VMware vCenter Server 6.0.x VMware vCenter Server 7.0.x VMware vCenter Server 6.7.x VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.x VMware vCenter Server 5.0.x VMware VirtualCenter 2.5.x VMware vCenter Server 5.1.x VMware vCenter Server 4.1.x VMware vCenter Server 5.5.x VMware vCenter Server 6.5.x VMware vCenter Server 4.0.x VMware Infrastructure SDK 2.0.x
Resolution
The service at https://localhost/sdk is not an HTML webserver that can serve web pages. The service functions over the SOAP protocol (an .xml based protocol) and only responds to SOAP requests.
For example a SOAP protocol request will serve https://vcenteripaddress/sdk/vimService.wsdl page where vimservice.wsdl is the name of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) webpage file provided by VMware.