Invalid Content-Type with SAAJ

Question

I get the following exception when trying to send a SOAPMessage with an attachment. Sorry for the length of this post. Lots of info.
com.sun.xml.messaging.saaj.SOAPExceptionImpl: Invalid Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Is this an error m
essage instead of a SOAP response?
The HTTP request looks like the following, I abbreviated the attachment content.
POST /edlf/design/service/ManagerServices/import HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
User-Agent: Java/1.5.0_10
Host: localhost:9080
Connection: keep-alive
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 17537
------=_Part_0_24087760.1169577467505
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header/>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ImportFileRequest>
<File name="test.dlf"/>
</ImportFileRequest>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
------=_Part_0_24087760.1169577467505
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
lMqAAMxQMQBQSwMEFAAAAAgAPFtWNrcaY4xxAQAANwYAADMAAABMaXZlRG9jcy9Db250ZW50L0N1
c3RvbWVyLzEvRG9jdW1lbnQvMS9QYWdlLzEvMS5iaW6VVL1OAzEMdig/LbQsLEggcV1ZbmGv1Lkj
ooIJJKoCC0J06MDAyIxY4QGYeYATj8LEgtQBCTawcUIck8sdn2QlduwvsePEAMAZyjrKPYoBxhrK
awOgBR47XYDPba/LuRHjO8at4niXsy0THPuLAAcr8AdfFjG71K9Qd7yEl3nmpANL3jp2uU5273fd
YwmBaf3UxEP6aH+qxEjow6VZn2fOSql5awRG6VRwF1wURToYwsI3d0fTSdY/n6YC/ochSsceU95/
WX66GgbC+3UcVGOSQ5x3sZHMQvVZtF9rM+zPeNqznr6lMnzU8JHQecW6IdbvdXgJrn6as+OUwenl
hBzI0LYbPeN4Ija9QHkETo7Wxig5BhU4zlmfp1/6N5Tc3hGVO2zPduBXDeIfCF0nciz0LOl3BBtg
------=_Part_0_24087760.1169577467505--
My code snippet for producing the above is:
BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
String encString = "";
encString = encoder.encode(content);
ByteArrayDataSource bds = new ByteArrayDataSource(encString, "application/octet-stream", fileName);
DataHandler dh = new DataHandler(bds);
URL url = new URL(serviceEndPt + "ManagerServices/import");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/xml");
OutputStream out = connection.getOutputStream();
MessageFactory mf = MessageFactory.newInstance();
SOAPMessage msg = mf.createMessage();
SOAPPart sp = msg.getSOAPPart();
SOAPEnvelope envelope = sp.getEnvelope();
SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();
SOAPBodyElement root = body.addBodyElement(envelope.createName("ImportFileRequest"));
SOAPElement fileEl = root.addChildElement(envelope.createName("File"));
Name attName = envelope.createName("name");
fileEl.addAttribute(attName, fileName);
root.addChildElement(fileEl);
AttachmentPart ap = msg.createAttachmentPart();
ap.setDataHandler(dh);
msg.addAttachmentPart(ap);
msg.writeTo(out);

Answer 1

The error does not seem to appears in WLS stack. Place a sniffer tool between your client and service to capture more info.
Jong