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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:16:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: Setting SOAPAction in HTTPPost header
From: William Speirs <wspeirs@apache.org>
To: HttpClient User Discussion <httpclient-users@hc.apache.org>
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Setting the params of the client is not what you want. You want to set a
header in the request. Something more like:

request.setHeader("SOAPAction", "mySOAPAction"); // [1]

[1]
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga/httpcore/apidocs/org/apache/http/message/AbstractHttpMessage.html#setHeader(java.lang.String,
java.lang.String)

Bill-

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Xue, Xiaohui <xiaohui.xue@sap.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm sending a SOAP request that requires to set a SOAPAction header.
> Below is my code that I thought being correct. However, my WebServices
> server keeps on telling me that there's no SOAP Action..
>
> I have tried in Fiddler to compose the same request, and by putting
> SOAPAction header in the composer, the server is able to return me the
> correct answer.
> Is my code of setup SOAPAction header not correct? Please note that I'm
> using HTTPClient 4.0.3.
>
> Any helps are welcome.
>
> Thanks!
> Xiaohui
>
> My code:
>                HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
>                httpClient.getParams().setParameter("Content-Type",
> "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
>                httpClient.getParams().setParameter("SOAPAction",
> "mySOAPAction");
>
>                String body = mySOAPBody";
>                StringEntity requestBody = new StringEntity(body, "utf-8");
>                requestBody.setContentType(new BasicHeader("Content-Type",
> "text/xml"));
>
>                HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
>                request.setEntity(requestBody);
>                HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpHost,
> request);
>
> Server response:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="
> http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="
> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="
> http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault><faultcode
> xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Client.NoSOAPAction</faultcode><faultstring>no
> SOAPAction header!</faultstring><detail><ns2:hostname xmlns:ns2="
> http://xml.apache.org/axis/
> ">CRDB-DBSERVER</ns2:hostname></detail></soapenv:Fault></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>
>
>
>
>

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