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jmtjmt
New Contributor
6 years ago

Prevent Byte-Order Mark (BOM) from prepending attachments

Hello all, I am new to SoapUI and web services in general... So I am grateful for any advice you can offer in advance.   I am working on trying to emulate SOAP messages from a black box client ...
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    JHunt
    6 years ago

    Are you sure that SoapUI is adding it - it's not in the XML file you're attaching?

     

    You could try opening the XML file in something like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code:

    • In Notepad++, choose "Encode in UTF-8 without BOM" from the Encoding menu, then save.
    • In Code, press Ctrl-Shift-P and type Change File Encoding. Then Save With Encoding, and choose UTF-8 (as opposed to UTF-8 with BOM).
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JHunt
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Are you sure that SoapUI is adding it - it's not in the XML file you're attaching?

 

You could try opening the XML file in something like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code:

  • In Notepad++, choose "Encode in UTF-8 without BOM" from the Encoding menu, then save.
  • In Code, press Ctrl-Shift-P and type Change File Encoding. Then Save With Encoding, and choose UTF-8 (as opposed to UTF-8 with BOM).
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jmtjmt
New Contributor
6 years ago

Thank you so much for your input.  I followed your suggestion with Notepad++ and it worked like a charm.  Once the BOM was removed the requests went through normally!

 

Thank you for taking the time to help me out!