How can I make jaxws parse response without checking Content-Type header - soap

Question

I am calling a soap webservice via jax ws client code (generated from wsdl).
But the service sends response with "Content-Type:text/html" where as the jax-ws implementation requires "text/xml" type.
The webservice folk won't change the response header.
Exception is :
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.client.ClientTransportException: The server
sent HTTP status code 200: OK at
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.createResponsePacket(HttpTransportPipe.java:266)
~[?:1.8.0_171] at
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.process(HttpTransportPipe.java:217)
~[?:1.8.0_171] at
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.http.client.HttpTransportPipe.processRequest(HttpTransportPipe.java:130)
~[?:1.8.0_171] at
com.sun.xml.internal.ws.transport.DeferredTransportPipe.processRequest(DeferredTransportPipe.java:124)
~[?:1.8.0_171]
Also tried with Saaj Implementation. It also mandates response Content-Type header to be text/xml.
Here is the exception with saaj :
Caused by: com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl:
Invalid Content-Type:text/html. Is this an error message instead of a
SOAP response? at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)
at
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.soap.MessageImpl.identifyContentType(MessageImpl.java:655)
~[?:1.8.0_171] at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:803)
at
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)
at
org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:790)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1459)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
Is there a way to make jaxws ignore response header and continue parsing?

Answer 1

Didn't exactly find a solution with jax-ws but thanks to #JGlass found a pleasantly simple solution with apache cfx. Very flexible implementation of jax-ws. In love with it.
Here is the simple code that made it work :
Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(port);
client.getInInterceptors().add(new AbstractPhaseInterceptor<org.apache.cxf.message.Message>(Phase.RECEIVE) {
public void handleMessage(org.apache.cxf.message.Message message) {
message.put(org.apache.cxf.message.Message.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/xml");
}
});