CirrusSOAP HTTP Monitor - HTTP Error 400. The request has an invalid header name.
Hello All
I am new to SOAP testing, I am using an http monitor to do a SOAP test but I keep receiving error 400 from the server. I am using a 3rd party SOAP client which gets a successful response, and it's using the same statement. I believe the problem is how I am constructing the request. I have read http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/2000/100/sol2167.html but still don't understand why this is failing.
This is what I am using on the 'Send String' portion of the test:
POST /CurrencyConvertor.asmx HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nContent-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8\r\nSOAPAction: \"http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate\"\r\nContent-Length: 345\r\nHost: www.webservicex.com\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nUser-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)\r\n\r\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nEUR\r\nAFA\r\n\r\n\r
The Wireshark capture from my tests indicates:
POST /CurrencyConvertor.asmx HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate" Content-Length: 345 Host: www.webservicex.com Connection: Keep-Alive
EUR AFA
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 23:04:50 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 339
Bad Request Bad Request - Invalid Header
HTTP Error 400. The request has an invalid header name.
The Wireshark from the successful connection using 3rd party shows:
POST /CurrencyConvertor.asmx HTTP/1.1 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 SOAPAction: "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate" Content-Length: 345 Host: www.webservicex.com Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)
EUR AFA HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 22:24:10 GMT Content-Length: 311
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I'd really appreciate any advice, many thanks….
G
FYI I am using BIP-IP VE version 10.1.0
