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Gordon Little
Gordon Little

Reputation: 139

SOAP Namespace with http URI

During an upgrade of a 3rd party SOAP API, the vendor has changed their responses to return

<env:Envelope xmlns:env='https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>...

instead of previously

<env:Envelope xmlns:env='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>...

Note the change from http to https.

Is this valid in any way?

Background: Our Java client code tries to check for a SOAPFault via a call through com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.getSOAPBody().hasFault() (saaj-impl-1.3.jar) which fails because the JavaEE standard specifies URI_NS_SOAP_ENVELOPE as the http URI. When the API's https response is returned, the URIs don't match and 

Jan 16, 2017 3:47:05 PM com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.soap.SOAPPartImpl lookForEnvelope
SEVERE: SAAJ0513: Unable to create envelope from given source because the namespace was not recognized

is returned.

As a workaround, could the SAAJ library behaviour be overridden to force use the http SOAP URI?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1705

Answers (1)

Andreas Veithen
Andreas Veithen

Reputation: 9164

According to the SOAP 1.1 specification:

The SOAP envelope has the namespace identifier "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

Therefore the message is not a valid SOAP message. Since SAAJ is designed to follow the SOAP specifications, it won't be able to process that message.

Upvotes: 2

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