Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-ws-axis-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 55751 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2004 11:10:45 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Dec 2004 11:10:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 3056 invoked by uid 500); 5 Dec 2004 11:10:15 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-ws-axis-user-archive@ws.apache.org Received: (qmail 2869 invoked by uid 500); 5 Dec 2004 11:10:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact axis-user-help@ws.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: axis-user@ws.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list axis-user@ws.apache.org Received: (qmail 2823 invoked by uid 99); 5 Dec 2004 11:10:12 -0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (hermes.apache.org: local policy) Received: from smtp2.macau.ctm.net (HELO smtp2.macau.ctm.net) (202.175.3.60) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.28) with ESMTP; Sun, 05 Dec 2004 03:10:11 -0800 Received: from smtp2.macau.ctm.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.macau.ctm.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD09F26ACB3 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:10:07 +0800 (CST) Received: from [202.175.42.93] (unknown [202.175.42.93]) by smtp2.macau.ctm.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB21A26AC90 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 2004 19:10:06 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <41B2EE6C.9020605@cpttm.org.mo> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:18:04 +0800 From: Kent Tong User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: axis-user@ws.apache.org Subject: Peculiar behavior of addHeader Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi, I'm studying the security example in Axis 1.1, in particular the SignedSOAPEnvelope class. To sign a message, it needs to add a header: SOAPEnvelope env; ... SOAPHeaderElement header = new SOAPHeaderElement( XMLUtils.StringToElement(SOAPSECNS, "Signature", "")); env.addHeader(header); If I change it to: SOAPEnvelope env; ... SOAPHeaderElement header = new SOAPHeaderElement(SOAPSECNS, "Signature"); env.addHeader(header); It also runs, but the signature element generated as an extra "mustUnderstand" attribute: ... But this doesn't happen if XMLUtils.StringToElement is used: ... Why is that so? Thanks in advance!