How to set SOAPAction header for SOAP 1.1?

[Olivier Mengué]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a SOAP client for the public SOAP service at:
http://www.service-repository.com/service/wsdl?id=98309

My attempts fail due to an empty SOAPAction header: Axis2/C 1.6.0 sends this:
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POST 
http://mellbourn.com:80/WebServices/PasswordGeneratorWebService/PasswordGeneratorService.asmx
 HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Axis2C/1.6.0
SOAPAction: ""
Content-Length: 199
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
Host: mellbourn.com:80

<soapenv:Envelope 
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";><soapenv:Body><get_Password
 
xmlns="http://www.mellbourn.com/WebServices/";></get_Password></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>
-------------------------------------

The response is:
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HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error.
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:04:58 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
MicrosoftOfficeWebServer: 5.0_Pub
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
PICS-Label: (PICS-1.0 "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html"; l by "k...@mellbourn
.net" on "2003.05.01T16:56+0200" exp "2004.05.01T12:00+0200" r (v 0 s 0 n 0 l 0)
)
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 818
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Connection: Keep-Alive

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; xmlns:xsi=
"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XM
LSchema">
  <soap:Body>
    <soap:Fault>
      <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
      <faultstring>System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server did not r
ecognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: .
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.Soap11ServerProtocolHelper.RouteRequest()
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapServerProtocol.Initialize()
   at System.Web.Services.Protocols.ServerProtocolFactory.Create(Type type, Http
Context context, HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, Boolean&amp; abortP
rocessing)</faultstring>
      <detail />
    </soap:Fault>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
----------------------------


According to the faultstring, the problem is the [SOAPAction: ""] header.

I tried to set the soap_action in the client options, but it looks like that 
does nothing:

        /* The axutil_string_create_const() is strange. See AXIS2C-1443 */
        axis2_char_t *SOAP_ACTION;
        axis2_options_set_soap_action(options, env, 
axutil_string_create_const(env, &SOAP_ACTION));


The full source code is attached. I plan to release it as an AXIS2/C sample 
when it's done.

Olivier Mengué

pwgen.c
Description: pwgen.c

proxy.c
Description: proxy.c

proxy.h
Description: proxy.h