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Oct 05, 2013

SOAP 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...
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Oct 05, 2013

Thanks Kevin,

 

I followed your advice about using curl. It's working now, more or less....

 

I now get the string that I am looking for: < ConversionRateResult >0< /ConversionRateResult >

 

However now get a code 200 OK followed by a 400 error, so something still not perfect but the test is working.

 

The final version of this string is:

 

POST /CurrencyConvertor.asmx HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: 173.201.44.188\r\nAccept: */*\r\nContent-Length: 299\r\nContent-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8\r\n\r\nEURAFA

The Wireshark output is now:

 

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Length: 377 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:58:06 GMT

 

< ConversionRateResult >0< /ConversionRateResult >HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Server: Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0 Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:58:06 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 311

 

Bad Request Bad Request

 

HTTP Error 400. The request is badly formed.