Getting Bad Response from Web service

[Mamu Jan]

Hi,

I'm trying to post to the web service http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL using SOAP.

My java program generates the following XML :

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <ConversionRate xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET/">
      <FromCurrency>USD</FromCurrency>
      <ToCurrency>BDT</ToCurrency>
    </ConversionRate>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

But I get the following response:

<?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/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Body>
    <soap:Fault>
      <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode>
      <faultstring>System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server did not recognize 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, HttpContext context, HttpRequest request, HttpResponse response, Boolean& abortProcessing)</faultstring>
      <detail />
    </soap:Fault>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Can sum1 tell me wats wrong?? A detailed description of the service can be found here

Any sorta help wud be gr8ly appreciated.

Thanx
[ December 26, 2005: Message edited by: Mamu Jan ]

[Jesus Angeles]

What value is in your html request for the header SOAPAction?

The link you provided showed an example with the text below

SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate"

Maybe you should do same.

[Mamu Jan]

Originally posted by Jesus Angeles:
What value is in your html request for the header SOAPAction?

The link you provided showed an example with the text below

SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate"

Maybe you should do same.

When I used the above link I get an HTTP Error 404. Try opening the link in IE you'll get the same error.

[Ulf Dittmer]

You're not supposed to access that URL, you should use it as value of the SOAPAction HTTP header as was suggested.

[Mamu Jan]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
You're not supposed to access that URL, you should use it as value of the SOAPAction HTTP header as was suggested.

Plz can u show me how I can set a value for the SOAPAction HTTP header. I've never heard of SOAPAction b4

Thanx

[Mamu Jan]

This is the XML Message I need to generate :

POST /CurrencyConvertor.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: <a href="http://www.webservicex.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.webservicex.net</a>
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate"
 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <ConversionRate xmlns="http://www.webserviceX.NET/">
      <FromCurrency>USD</FromCurrency>
      <ToCurrency>QRR</ToCurrency>
    </ConversionRate>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

and this is my code

// Create connection and message factory
            SOAPConnectionFactory soapConnectionFactory = 
                SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
            SOAPConnection connection = 
                soapConnectionFactory.createConnection();
            MessageFactory messageFactory = 
                MessageFactory.newInstance();
 
            // Create a message
            SOAPMessage message = 
                messageFactory.createMessage();
            
            // Get the SOAP header and body from the message
            // and remove the header
            SOAPHeader header = message.getSOAPHeader();
            SOAPBody body = message.getSOAPBody();
            header.detachNode();
 
            // Create a SOAP factory
            // Create a UDDI v2 find_business body element
            SOAPFactory soapFactory = 
                SOAPFactory.newInstance();
            SOAPBodyElement findBusiness = 
                body.addBodyElement(soapFactory.createName(
                    "ConversionRate", "", 
                    "http://www.webserviceX.NET/"));
                    
            SOAPElement from = 
                findBusiness.addChildElement(
                    soapFactory.createName("FromCurrency") );
            from.addTextNode("USD");
            
            SOAPElement to = 
                findBusiness.addChildElement(
                    soapFactory.createName("ToCurrency") );
            to.addTextNode("QRR");
 
            message.saveChanges();

I cudnt find any error in the code ?!! Can sum1 help me !

[Ulf Dittmer]

You can set HTTP headers like so:

MimeHeaders hd = message.getMimeHeaders();
hd.addHeader("SOAPAction", "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate");
[ December 29, 2005: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

[Mamu Jan]

Thanx every1 ! My program is working now !