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Jasper175
Frequent Contributor
16 years ago

</soapenv:Header> "Does it need to be in a SOAP Request?"

Very general question - I see some people's code and they have However I noticed in my testing a SOAP Response that it fails if I have in my request. When I take out , it works fine. What's...
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rajash
Contributor
16 years ago
Hey,

A SOAP structure should have an SOAP:envelope,  SOAP:header (optional) and a SOAP:body (mandatory). If you do not have any header value to be passed it appears always in the request with a empty tag
.

In header we normally pass security details like your username and password if header expects as per the service implementation.

Check the link below for more info,

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... ssage.html

Can you validate the request with in the req?  I think you should see errors.

I believe it should be
which is a empty tag and not . Can you invoke your request with
? It should work fine.

When you validate the req with only in the request you will see
error: does not close tag .

Hope the above helps,


Thanks,
Raj