Issue in sending a SOAP request in ApacheHttpClient with SSL - soap

Question

I want to send a SOAP request through SSL to SOAP server (Microsoft IIS server). When I test the SOAP request through the soapUI tool with SSL - Keystore configurations it returns response correctly. But Using following code it returns "HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request"
I used httpclient-4.2.3 and httpcore-4.2.2.
import java.security.KeyStore;
import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
try {
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
FileInputStream instream1 = new FileInputStream(new File("C:\\CCDKeyStore\\mykeystore.jks"));
try {
keyStore.load(instream1, "1214524".toCharArray());
} finally {
try { instream1.close(); } catch (Exception ignore) {}
}
SSLSocketFactory socketFactory = new SSLSocketFactory(keyStore,"1214524");
Scheme sch = new Scheme("https", 443, socketFactory);
SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = httpclient.getConnectionManager().getSchemeRegistry();
schemeRegistry.register(sch);
final HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
DefaultHttpClient lHttpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(new BasicClientConnectionManager(schemeRegistry), httpParams);
String lUrl = "https://api.demo.server.com/XDS/Service.svc?wsdl";
StringBuffer lXmlBuffer = new StringBuffer();
lXmlBuffer.append("<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope\" xmlns:a=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing\">\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("<s:Header>\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("<a:Action s:mustUnderstand=\"1\">urn:74347:4757:StoredQuery</a:Action>\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("<a:MessageID>urn:uuid:c6430690-412e-4744-afe1-233e2138f2d2</a:MessageID>\n");
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lXmlBuffer.append("</Slot>\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("</AdhocQuery>\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("</query:AdhocQueryRequest>\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("</s:Body>\n");
lXmlBuffer.append("</s:Envelope>\n");
String lXml = lXmlBuffer.toString();
HttpPost lMethod = new HttpPost(lUrl);
HttpEntity lEntity = new StringEntity(lXml, "multipart/related", "utf-8");
lMethod.setHeader("SOAPAction", "urn:74347:4757:StoredQuery");
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(lEntity));
lMethod.setEntity(lEntity);
HttpResponse lHttpResponse = lHttpClient.execute(lMethod);
} finally {
httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
}
Any help on this highly appreciate
Thanks,
Mohan

Answer 1

Finally I found the answer...
Here the following line in above code contains content type as "multipart/related". But web service is expected the content type "application/soap+xml" since this is SOAP request. Please refer w3schools tutorial for further information
HttpEntity lEntity = new StringEntity(lXml, "multipart/related", "utf-8");