SOAP + UTF-8 problem

Question

Hi,<br />I have this problem: I need to  execute a call to a webservice passing to an XML. I writte in Spanish, so in my XML there are letters like: àá ÒÓ ... <br /><br />I'm trying to codify in UTF-8 cause de webservice do the decode from UTF-8 to ASCII, but I don't know how. I try with :  <br />        /*theRequest is the XML*/<br />         var cRequest = util.streamFromString(theRequest, "utf-8");<br />      theRequest = util.stringFromStream(cRequest);<br /><br />But I think this is not ok, this codify the request twice?<br /> <br />The Soap message that I send to the webservice starts like this: <br /><?xml version="1.0"?><br /><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><SOAP-ENV:Header>....<br /><br />is this " <?xml version="1.0"?>" ok?? must I see the encoding="utf-8" ??<br /><br />The webservice returns me this error:<br /><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Body><soapenv:Fault><fault code>soapenv:Server.userException</faultcode><faultstring>java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 2 of 4-byte UTF-8 sequence.</faultstring><detail><ns1:hostname xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">nut</ns1:hostname></detail></soapenv:Fault></soap env:Body></soapenv:Envelope><br /><br />Any idea?<br /><br />Thanks,<br />And sorry for my english :P

Answer 1

Yes, I create the connection. This is the function:
theURL is the URL of the service dispatcher connection
thHeader is the Header SOAP
theRequest the XML of the pdf
the Action the action of the service Dispather I'm calling for.
function doWS(theURL, theHeader, theRequest, theAction){
try {
var oResponse = "";
SOAP.wireDump = true;
/* var cRequest = util.streamFromString(theRequest, "utf-8");
theRequest = util.stringFromStream(cRequest);
var cHeader = util.streamFromString(theHeader, "utf-8");
theHeader = util.stringFromStream(cHeader);*/
var oService = SOAP.connect(theURL);
if (oService != "[object SOAPService]") {
oResponse = "ERROR - No connection";
} else {
// Create the processRequest parameter
var processRequest = {
soapType: "xsd:string", //anyType
soapValue: theRequest
// Create the action
var mySOAPAction = theAction;
var sendHeader = {
soapType: "xsd:string",
soapValue: theHeader
// Create the responseHeader parameter
var responseHeader = {};
responseHeader[theAction] = {};
// Do the request method
oResponse = SOAP.request ({
cURL: theURL,
oRequest: processRequest,
cAction: mySOAPAction,
bEncoded: false,
oReqHeader: sendHeader,
oResHeader: responseHeader,
cResponseStyle: SOAPMessageStyle.XML
return oResponse;
oService = null;
catch(e)
console.println("ERROR - " + e);
return ("ERROR - " + e);
oService = null;
I'm new on this job, and they use to do it like that, so I supose that this is correct. But they have problems when they work with àáèé...
I thougth that adobe designer works all in utf-8, so I don't understand that the problem could be on the utf-codification.
Maybe the problem is on te server???
Thank you so much!