[ghill1011]

Running 3.7. I'm trying to create a SOAP client in my blackberry simulator. I use: HttpConnection.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", "ping")
to set the soap action. But, what HttpConnection writes out is:
"soapaction: ping". When the web service receives this, it complains that the SOAP Action is not set and returns an error to my client. Anyone have any ideas?

[Mark Rejhon]

I am now attempting to make an inquiry with Blackberry developers, will let you know if I get an answer...

Others, please feel free to help here. Thanks!

[David O'Meara]

My work-around is on the blackberry site

[kirson]

David,

Hope you don't mind, but I'm copying your response into this forum -- makes it easier to read the thread beginning to end. If you would rather I delete this, just let me know, and I'll remove it. Here is David's workaround:

I'm shocked, you're quite right. I have no idea where the behaviour comes from. I also tried "Soap-Action" just to see what happens, and it too gets converted.

The work around I'm using is to open a socket connection and write the header myslef, but it means you now miss out on the automatic parsing of the response header. Annoying. I'm really looking forward to rewriting that when I shouldn't have to.

Just for the record:
Split the URL into the host and URI, use the Connector to open HOST:port, cast the Connection to StreamConnection (Not HttpConnection)
write the header like this: (i save it as a byte array then send as two chucks)
bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
out = new OutputStreamWriter(bos, "UTF-8");
out.write("POST ");
out.write( URI );
out.write(" HTTP/1.1\r\n");
out.write("Content-Type:text/html\r\n");
...

* Don't forget the request length
* Don't forget the extra \r\n at the end
* Note the URI in the POST part.

Then send the header followed by the payload.

OutputStream os = conn.openOutputStream();
byte[] header = getHeader(requestData.length);
os.write(header,0,header.length);
os.write(requestData, 0, requestData.length);
os.close();

The easiest place to get this is to use the Apache SOAP TCP Tunnel GUI and copy the header data as-is. Drop another post and tell me how you got on. I'm using kSoap2.0 by the way.

[Mark Rejhon]

I was the one who made that inquiry on that website :D ....

Thanks for copying it back!

[David O'Meara]

Mark, any response from RIM as to why the header gets mangled? I've been using the code I posted on my demo hand-held, but the default security for the company providing the demo blocks the request.

I find it strange that socket connections on port 80 appear to be treated differently to http connections, but I'm still looking into it. I haven't ruled out user error.