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yey2000
New Contributor
16 years ago

Getting unrecognized character on webservice response

I have two computers, for each of them, I am using SOAPUI 2.5.1 and 3.0.1 to test a web service. On both machines, I imported the WSDL and created test cases. One one machine, I was able to test t...
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Dunderklumpen
I was a about to post a reply stating that I was having the exact same problem, but we have solved our problem, so perhaps this is solution for you also.

My situation was the same: working on machine 1 (xml response), not working on machine 2 (strange characters in response).

In this case the web service being called was provided by Siebel 8.1 (although that may not be important).

After checking the HTTP headers in the "raw" tab of the XML request and response, I noticed the following in the header of the non-working request.

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate


and also this in the HTTP header of the response

content-encoding: deflate


The request header and response header for the working request did not have these lines.

You can turn this off (in SOAP-UI 3.0.1) by going to HTTP Settings in the Preferences dialog (File >Preferences > HTTP Settings tab) and turning off "Accept compressed responses from host".

Hope this helps
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kush
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Hi,

 

I am getting same issue in my Ready API. I am getting "Â" character extra in response when i am using ready API 1.9.0 but if I am using SOAPUI 4.6.0 then getting response without "Â" character.

Not sure why this character is coming extra in ready API.

 

Both of their raw request is same except User-Agent:

In Ready API the User-Agent is: Apache-HttpClient/4.5.2 (Java/1.8.0_102)

In SOAPUI the User-Agent is: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

 

Can you please solve this issue.

 

NOTE: I am using both Ready API and SOAPUI in same machine.