Http Header for SOAP message.

Question

Hello,
I need to set some custom HTTP Header when i send the SOAP message to an endpoint.
I tried this..but doesn't solve my requirement.
SOAPMessage soapmsg = messageFactory.createMessage();
MimeHeaders mime = soapmsg.getMimeHeaders();
mime.addHeader("SOAPAction", "xxxx");
mime.addHeader("Sender", "yyy");
SOAPMessage reply = connection.call(soapmsg, destination);
Can anyone please guide me how to set HTTP headers for SOAP?
Thanks,

Answer 1

The following snippet is some code froma stand-alone web service client that I use for testing. It picks up an XML as the payload of the web service, wraps it in a SOAP message and fires it at the web service endpoint.
     System.out.println("Create the SOAP message.\n"); 
     MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
     SOAPMessage message = messageFactory.createMessage();
     System.out.println("Creating a DOM object from the JAXB payload.");
     DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          factory.setValidating(false);
             factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
     DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
     Document doc = parser.parse("file:payload.xml");
     //  Add the HTTP headers.
     message.getMimeHeaders().addHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 [en] (WinNT; I)");
     message.getMimeHeaders().addHeader("Host", "localhost:9080");
     message.getMimeHeaders().addHeader("Content-type", "text/xml");
     message.getMimeHeaders().addHeader("SOAPAction", "http://www.xxx.com.au/wsdl/someWebService");
     message.setProperty(SOAPMessage.CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING, "utf-8");
     SOAPEnvelope envelope = message.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
     envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("n", "http://xxx/webService");
     envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("xsd", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
     envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
     System.out.println("Adding the payload to the SOAP body.\n");
     SOAPBody body = message.getSOAPBody();
     SOAPBodyElement docElement = body.addDocument(doc);
     System.out.println("This is the SOAP message.\n");
     message.writeTo(System.out);
     System.out.println("\nPutting the payload on the wire.\n");
     SOAPConnectionFactory conFactry = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
     SOAPConnection connection = conFactry.createConnection();          
     URL endpoint = new URL("http://localhost:9080/xxx/services/yyy-webservices");
     SOAPMessage response = connection.call(message, endpoint);
     System.out.println("Payload sent. Closing the connection.\n");
     connection.close();