How do I figure out what a WCF service is expecting? - wcf

I am using Node.js and wcf.js module (npm install wcf.js)
The service i am trying to consume is https://webservice.kareo.com/services/soap/2.1/
I have figure out that this https://webservice.kareo.com/services/soap/2.1/KareoServices.svc?xsd=xsd0 contains what the service is looking to receive and that these https://webservice.kareo.com/services/soap/2.1/KareoServices.svc?wsdl=wsdl0 are the uri's to submit them to.
How in the world do i figure out how I am supposed to structure the request?
This is the example given to my by wcf.js
var BasicHttpBinding = require('wcf.js').BasicHttpBinding
, Proxy = require('wcf.js').Proxy
, binding = new BasicHttpBinding()
, proxy = new Proxy(binding, " https://webservice.kareo.com/services/soap/2.1/")
, message = '<Envelope xmlns=' +
'"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">' +
'<Header />' +
'<Body>' +
'<GetData xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">' +
'<value>GetAppointments</value>' +
'</GetData>' +
'</Body>' +
'</Envelope>'
proxy.send(message, "http://www.kareo.com/api/schemas/KareoServices/GetAppointments", function(response, ctx) {
console.log(response)
});

According to the wsdl this service uses BasicHttpBinding, which means no ws-secrutiy or addressing are used. In this case wcf.js does not bring you much added value on top of just using request but nevertheless you can still use wcf.js. You need to set correctly 3 values - url, soapaction (the second param in the proxy ctor) and the soap. I recommend getting all 3 values by generating a c# client to this service, verifying the client works, and then setting up fiddler and pointing the client to "http://localhost:8888" so you will see in fiddler all 3 values and can configure them.

I don't have any experience with wcf.js but, if you just need to see how you should structure you soap envelope to make a request I would suggest you fire up wcftestclient and connect to the service. Once connected you can call any of the operations and view the soap message. Here is an empty request to the GetAppointments operation.
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://www.kareo.com/api/schemas/KareoServices/GetAppointments</Action>
</s:Header>
<s:Body>
<GetAppointments xmlns="http://www.kareo.com/api/schemas/">
<request xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<RequestHeader i:nil="true" />
<Fields i:nil="true" />
<Filter i:nil="true" />
</request>
</GetAppointments>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

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SOAP Action mismatch error while testing a WCF service with SoapUI

Am testing a WCF service with a sample input in SOAPUI. when i hit the run,I get an SOAP Exception like below:
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
<s:Header>
<a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/fault</a:Action>
</s:Header>
<s:Body>
<s:Fault>
<s:Code>
<s:Value>s:Sender</s:Value>
<s:Subcode>
<s:Value>a:ActionMismatch</s:Value>
</s:Subcode>
</s:Code>
<s:Reason>
<s:Text xml:lang="en-US">The SOAP action specified on the message, '', does not match the HTTP SOAP Action, 'http://XXX.XX.XXXX/IXXXXXX/AddOrderInfromation'.</s:Text>
</s:Reason>
<s:Detail>
<a:ProblemHeaderQName>a:Action</a:ProblemHeaderQName>
</s:Detail>
</s:Fault>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
In blogs, they are asking to add Soap Action . How to Add Soap Action in my request below:
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:wkus="http://XXX.XX.XXXX/IXXXXXX">
<soap:Header />
<soap:Body>
<ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
<!--Optional:-->
<ns1:inputsting>
<ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
<ns1:OrderNo>4500146</ns1:OrderNo>
<ns1:OrderDate>08/22/2014</ns1:OrderDate>
<ns1:TotalItems>1</ns1:TotalItems>
</ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
</ns1:inputsting>
</ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
Please Suggest. Thanks in Advance
This is probably a WS-A addressing issue.
In the WS-A tab of your Request, check Enable WS-A addressing.
You may also have to check Add default was:To.
Your web service is returning a SOAPFault which is saying that web service expects a SOAP Action http header. In order to add a SOAP action in your SOAP request from SOAPUI you must add a http header named SOAPAction, to do so do the next step:
In the bottom of your SOAP test request there are some tabs (Header(0), Attachments(0)...), open the Header(0) tab.Then using + add button, add a header with SOAPAction name and your value:
hope this helps,
I had this problem too, and solved it by enabling WS-A addressing in SopaUI.
screenshot from SoapUI
This error also occurs due to improper syntax in xml request
For Eg : It will throw same error if
closing tag is missing
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
in below code
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:wkus="http://XXX.XX.XXXX/IXXXXXX">
<soap:Header />
<soap:Body>
<ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
<ns1:inputsting>
<ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
<ns1:OrderNo>4500146</ns1:OrderNo>
<ns1:OrderDate>08/22/2014</ns1:OrderDate>
<ns1:TotalItems>1</ns1:TotalItems>
</ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
</ns1:inputsting>
</ns1:AddOrderInfromation>
or if having unexpected syntax like this
<ns1:OrderNo>4500146**<ns1:OrderNo>**
instead of
<ns1:OrderNo>4500146**</ns1:OrderNo>**
or this
<ns1:**OrderNo**4500146</ns1:OrderNo>
instead of
<ns1:**OrderNo>**4500146</ns1:OrderNo>
I have just encountered similar problem. And I solved the issue like below;
https://blabla.com/xyz.svc?wsdl -->go to the wsdl url on browser and you will see some actions inside methods;
I use python for development and i added soapAction like below;
headers = {'Content-type': 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8',
'SOAPAction': 'http://tempuri.org/IArasCargoIntegrationService/GetQueryXML'
}
and it worked.

Webservice is not working anymore after changed firewall hardware (Dell sonicwall)

We have built for a customer websiteB in c# asp.net. There is also another website in php which is builded by another company. This is websiteA. The enduser is try to log in on websiteA. Underwater there is a request to a webservice on websiteB with username/password as parameters. WebsiteB try to get authenticate the credentials and return a message. WebsiteA is running on some server of another company. WebsiteB is running on our server in the datacenter. This scenario was always working!
No we have changed the firewall hardware in our datacenter. We have now Dell SonicWall. In the beginning the certificates were not working of our webservice. We have fix this. When you run our webservice in the browser the certifcate is OK (there is no red background in the url).
This is the url of my webservice:
https://service.myCompany.com/PortalService.svc
I ask the other company to give me some logging or an exception from there side. They do not get an exception. They got an empty array. They have printed some logging for me after a request:
We have also enabled the logging on the webservice. This is the logging after trying to login on websiteA.
Request to webservice:
<MessageLogTraceRecord>
<HttpRequest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/ServiceModel/Management/MessageTrace">
<Method>POST</Method>
<QueryString></QueryString>
<WebHeaders>
<Connection>Keep-Alive</Connection>
<Content-Length>574</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>text/xml;charset=UTF-8</Content-Type>
<Accept>*/*</Accept>
<Authorization>Basic bWlqbnNlaF9uZXRieXRlczojbjN0Ynl0MzU=</Authorization>
<Host>service.MyCompany.com</Host>
<User-Agent>Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1</User-Agent>
<SOAPAction>"http://schemas.MyCompany.com/SecurityService/SecurityService/LoginUsernamePassword"</SOAPAction>
</WebHeaders>
</HttpRequest>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:test="http://schemas.MyCompany.com/SecurityService">
<soapenv:Header>
<To soapenv:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">https://mycompanyapp01.dmz.mycompany.local/SecurityService.svc</To>
<Action soapenv:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://schemas.MyCompany.com/SecurityService/SecurityService/LoginUsernamePassword</Action>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<test:LoginUsernamePassword>
<test:Username><![CDATA[testuser#mycompany.com]]></test:Username>
<test:Password><![CDATA[#test!]]></test:Password>
<test:ReturnToken>true</test:ReturnToken>
<test:ReturnProfile>true</test:ReturnProfile>
<test:ReturnRoles>true</test:ReturnRoles>
</test:LoginUsernamePassword>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
</MessageLogTraceRecord>
Response from webservice:
<MessageLogTraceRecord>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://schemas.MyCompany.com/SecurityService/SecurityService/LoginUsernamePasswordResponse</Action>
</s:Header>
<s:Body>
<LoginUsernamePasswordResponse xmlns="http://schemas.MyCompany.com/SecurityService">
<LoginUsernamePasswordResult xmlns:d4p1="http://schemas.MyCompany.com/datacontracts" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<d4p1:Token>PJ%2bNtW0Kpy%2frd945r3Q0ziQpoax%2bNIiPNXC8obx%2fl73D2MPTvwFA9TqDtHNzXPq7</d4p1:Token>
<d4p1:UserProfile>
<d4p1:DisplayNameFormal>Test</d4p1:DisplayNameFormal>
<d4p1:DisplayNameInformal>Test</d4p1:DisplayNameInformal>
<d4p1:Email>test#mycompany.com</d4p1:Email>
<d4p1:IsErkendAdviseur>false</d4p1:IsErkendAdviseur>
<d4p1:UserID>testuser#mycompany.com</d4p1:UserID>
</d4p1:UserProfile>
<d4p1:UserRoles xmlns:d5p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<d5p1:string>Test Medewerker</d5p1:string>
</d4p1:UserRoles>
</LoginUsernamePasswordResult>
</LoginUsernamePasswordResponse>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
</MessageLogTraceRecord>
I have also started the wcf client tool (wcfTestClient.exe). I add the webservice url (https://service.myCompany.com/PortalService.svc). I got this exception:
Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from https://service.MyCompany.com/SecurityService.svc?wsdl
If this is a Windows (R) Communication Foundation service to which you have access, please check that you have enabled metadata publishing at the specified address. For help enabling metadata publishing, please refer to the MSDN documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata Exchange
Error URI: https://service.MyCompany.com/SecurityService.svc?wsdl Metadata contains a reference that cannot be resolved: 'https://service.MyCompany.com/SecurityService.svc?wsdl'.
The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'. The authentication header received from the server was 'Basic realm="service.MyCompany.com"'.
The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.HTTP GET Error URI: https://service.MyCompany.com/SecurityService.svc?wsdl
The document was understood, but it could not be processed. - The WSDL document contains links that could not be resolved. - There was an error downloading 'https://myCompanyapp01.dmz.myCompany.local/SecurityService.svc?wsdl=wsdl0'. - The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel. - The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure.
Why do I see the intern url in the exception while I testing the public url:
intern url: https://myCompanyapp01.dmz.myCompany.local/SecurityService.svc?wsdl
public url: https://service.MyCompany.com/SecurityService.svc?wsdl
The public url has a certificate. The intern url not. When you try the intern url you got a red background in the browser.
I think this whole problem is our firewall. I think there is some restricted option on SOAP outbound messages. Because websiteA which is doing the request dont get an exception. They get also an answer, but it is empty. So it looks like the firewall has make it empty.
What do you think of this problem?
Your WSDL is referencing/including files on the internal app server. Try using a flattened wsdl.

Submitting WCF-generated XML through SoapUI

I have a WCF service that I'm testing with SoapUI. I'm using a VS-generated proxy class on the client, and I'm using an IClientMessageInspector class to intercept the XML just before the request and save it. Later on, I paste this XML into SoapUI to replay the transaction.
However, when submitting the XML with SoapUI, I get the following response: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
I found that if I remove the contents of the <Header> tag by setting it to empty, then the call succeeds. But I don't know why.
Here is how the Header tag is generated by the client proxy:
<s:Header />
<Action xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none" s:mustUnderstand="1">http://app.company.com/IApp/Foo</Action>
</s:Header>
Here is what I change it to in order for it to work:
<s:Header />

Direct POST to WCF WSDL-first web service

I need some help posting some XML to a WCF service. In essence, the issue I am experiencing is a HTTP response of "400: Bad request" - as descriptive as that sounds, i'm struggling to find any answers!
First of all, the service I have built in WCF is based on an existing WSDL, originally from an IBM WebSphere web service. After some manipulation (removal of MIME attachments, downloading of some remote schemas) I managed to get svcutil to generate a service interface which for all intents and purposes seems valid.
I have implemented the interface in to my WCF service and when running the WCF test client, I can attach to the service, submit a request and receive a response no problems. So far so good!
When moving to a test application for posting XML to web services via the HttpWebRequest class I start receiving "400: Bad request" responses even though I am using the XML provided by the WCF test client.
I've used WCF tracing to dump out the messages it is receiving and there is one striking difference - all of the WCF test client messages are populating correctly and displaying their header information etc, all of the once from my SOAP test utility are showing as "Malformed". Looking in to the message tab, the manual POST messages I am sending have the body wrapped in a element:
<MessageLogTraceRecord><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<To s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://localhost:57567/Service1.svc</To>
<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://www.nowhere.co.uk/RequestService/RequestOperation</Action>
</s:Header>
</s:Envelope>
]]></MessageLogTraceRecord>
Whereas the WCF messages appear as:
<MessageLogTraceRecord>
<HttpRequest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2004/06/ServiceModel/Management/MessageTrace">
<Method>POST</Method>
<QueryString></QueryString>
<WebHeaders>
<Connection>Keep-Alive</Connection>
<Content-Length>185</Content-Length>
<Content-Type>text/xml; charset=utf-8</Content-Type>
<Accept-Encoding>gzip, deflate</Accept-Encoding>
<Expect>100-continue</Expect>
<Host>localhost:57567</Host>
<VsDebuggerCausalityData>uIDPo4VLDcJD5AZDjB5sdmoeakEAAAAAH/hWABuWQ0iiq47QDHh0GlelCLcEx7FLibxRvpq1tTgACQAA</VsDebuggerCausalityData>
<SOAPAction>"http://www.nowhere.co.uk/RequestService/RequestOperation"</SOAPAction>
</WebHeaders>
</HttpRequest>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<To s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://localhost:57567/Service1.svc</To>
<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://www.nowhere.co.uk/RequestService/RequestOperation</Action>
</s:Header>
</s:Envelope>
</MessageLogTraceRecord>
I've tried tracing in Fiddler to no avail - I can't get the WCF test client to submit requests through the proxy it creates despite modifying it's app.config file. I have traced my SOAP request however can can see the following:
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: 127.0.0.1:57567
SOAPAction: "http://www.nowhere.co.uk/RequestService/RequestOperation"
Content-Length: 459
Expect: 100-continue
Connection: Keep-Alive
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<To s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://localhost:57567/Service1.svc</To>
<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://www.nowhere.co.uk/RequestService/RequestOperation</Action>
</s:Header>
</s:Envelope>
As far as I can tell, the message I am sending should be ok - outside of the headers and the message content I can't see what else could be sent.
Last thing I should say is that I am by no means a WCF expert and I have had to change the specific SOAPAction value due to commercial sensitivity..
Can anyone offer any help on this rather frustrating problem?
Thanks in advance
Thanks for the Fiddler comment - I managed to get the WCF request traced and using the xml from the request seems to work! I've since tried a full message which works against the WebSphere service against the WCF client and that works too!
I think the issue was the Action header. I believe WCF only support a couple of revisions of WSA, none of which are the one this particular WSDL was using. Looking at the original requests that were failing (pulled out of the WCF Test Client front end) the addressing namespace it was using was declared as:
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none"
Whereas the actual WCF request that goes across to the service is declared as:
xmlns:wsa="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2004/03/addressing"
The actual element itself was populated with the same value, just the difference in namespace:
<wsa:Action>http://www.nowhere.co.uk/RequestService/RequestOperation</wsa:Action>
So using the correct addressing version and omitting the newer, WCF compatible version appears to have fixed the problem!

Preventing BizTalk from emitting a "To" Soap header in an outgoing request to a WCF BasicHttp service

Using BizTalk 2010 to consume a WCF webservice with BasicHttp binding.
My service is rejecting the requests coming from BizTalk. I can see using tracing and soapUI that the reason is the "To" header emitted by BizTalk in the outgoing message:
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header>
<To s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://biztalk01:81/StuffServices.svc</To>
</s:Header>
<s:Body>
<ns0:GetMyStuff xmlns:ns0="http://example.com/stuff" xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays">
<ns0:inputArray>
<ns1:string>80220</ns1:string>
</ns0:inputArray>
</ns0:GetMyStuff >
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
This request gives a fault back both in BizTalk and in soapUI, but if I try in soapUI to send the exact same request without the To header (deleting the "<To s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none">http://biztalk01:81/StuffServices.svc
"), then it works fine and returns the correct response.
Thus my question: what are my options to make BizTalk not emit that "To" soap header in that outgoing request?
Actually that header was never in the request sent by BizTalk, it was added by WCF tracing in the log. Using Fiddler to capture the real request sent allowed me to see that the problem was elsewhere. It's possible to get the BizTalk query to go through fiddler by adding the proxy http://127.0.0.1:8888 in the binding configuration of the send port.