no SOAPAction header - Is a SOAPAction header still required in SOAP 1.2?

[Joshua . White]

I though I remember reading that the SOAPAction header is no longer required in SOAP 1.2.  Is this correct?

I have a client that is sending me a SOAP message and I am receiving the following AXIS error message:

AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Client.NoSOAPAction
 faultSubcode:
 faultString: no SOAPAction header!
 faultActor:
 faultNode:
 faultDetail:
        {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:no SOAPAction header!
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.getSoapAction(AxisServlet.java:1013)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:678)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:763)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:327)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:225)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:127)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:272)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:165)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3153)
        at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
        at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:121)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:1973)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:1880)
        at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1310)
        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:207)
        at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:179)

How do I fix this?

Regards,

Joshua

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