sending soap message - still having problem

[mark kurten]

I have a soap message that looks like this.

s = s & " <soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'"
s = s & " xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'"
s = s & " xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>"
s = s & " <soap:operation soapAction='urn:Example1/HelloWorld'
style='document' />"
s = s & " <soap:Body> <HelloWorld xmlns='urn:Example1'>
<name>Mark</name> </HelloWorld> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>"
I'm sending this request to a web service using the HttpWebRequest object.

The web service is simple. it works fine.

<WebMethod()> _
Public Function HelloWorld(ByVal name As String) As String
Return "Hello " & name
End Function

I receive an error

System.Exception: soap:Client Unable to handle request without a valid
action parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.

I thought i was and I'm stumped.

thanks for any assistance

[Martin Honnen]

mark kurten wrote:

I'm sending this request to a web service using the HttpWebRequest object. System.Exception: soap:Client Unable to handle request without a valid
action parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.

As I said in an earlier message, you need to send a HTTP request header
witth the proper soap action so along the line of (untested)
httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("SOAPAction", "urn:Example1/HelloWorld")

You might want to install some HTTP sniffer on your pc, then use a
working SOAP client and make a request to your web service and let the
sniffer record the HTTP request and response and then you can look at
that and try to have your code rebuild such a request with the same HTTP
headers and the same HTTP request body.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[mark kurten]

Thank you so much...I just did not understand that i had to do the below. I
thought i could do it within my string message itself.
I now get another error, but I'm off on the right track.
The error now is :

System.Exception: soap:Client Server found request content type to be
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', but expected 'text/xml'. at

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

mark kurten wrote:

I'm sending this request to a web service using the HttpWebRequest object.

System.Exception: soap:Client Unable to handle request without a valid
action parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.

As I said in an earlier message, you need to send a HTTP request header
witth the proper soap action so along the line of (untested)
httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("SOAPAction", "urn:Example1/HelloWorld")

You might want to install some HTTP sniffer on your pc, then use a
working SOAP client and make a request to your web service and let the
sniffer record the HTTP request and response and then you can look at
that and try to have your code rebuild such a request with the same HTTP
headers and the same HTTP request body.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[mark kurten]

i made the change for the content type and it works great now. Thank you
again.

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

mark kurten wrote:

I'm sending this request to a web service using the HttpWebRequest object.

System.Exception: soap:Client Unable to handle request without a valid
action parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.

As I said in an earlier message, you need to send a HTTP request header
witth the proper soap action so along the line of (untested)
httpWebRequest.Headers.Add("SOAPAction", "urn:Example1/HelloWorld")

You might want to install some HTTP sniffer on your pc, then use a
working SOAP client and make a request to your web service and let the
sniffer record the HTTP request and response and then you can look at
that and try to have your code rebuild such a request with the same HTTP
headers and the same HTTP request body.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/