220412 - no SOAPAction in HTTP request header when making a SOAP call

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Web Services, defect)

Description

[Vlad Dracul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Opera 7.02  [en]
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It seems that mozilla does not append a SOAPAction string in the HTTP header 
when making a SOAP call. Some web services work without this (those provided in 
the documentation), however some dont. I tried with Apache Axis and the server 
returns an error about missing SOAPAction. The SOAP specification sais that 
SOAPAction MUST be in the HTTP request header. To be sure I ued tcpmon, a tool 
provided with Axis witch allows to view HTTP messages sent and received in real 
time. In deed, I could not see any SOAPAction in the HTTP request header.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Apache Axis as the webservice server


2.Try to connect to a webservice (the simplest is stock in the samples directory 
of Axis). The code should be almost the same found in the article on http:
//devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/soap/01/ 





Actual Results:  
The server return an error message saying about a missing SOAPAction in the HTTP 
request header.


Expected Results:  
Add a SOAPAction string in the HTTP request header.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

<SOAPMessage>.actionURI = "<action URI>  "; should do it for you.

More at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/webservices/docs/Soap_Scripts_in_Mozilla.html