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Posted to soap-user@ws.apache.org by Martin Hubley <mh...@espial.com> on 2002/04/02 22:43:56 UTC

HTTP redirects and SOAP

Hi,

My basic question is does Apache SOAP (or any other SOAP implementation)
support http redirect headers in a response for a client?? The gory details
follow...

We have a setup where I am using the GLUE SOAP servlet as part of a J2EE ear
running in JBoss 2.4.4 (with Tomcat 4.0.1), where the servlet (and our other
servlets) is protected by a custom filter implemented for single-sign-on
purposes. This filter redirects all requests without our auth cookie to an
auth servlet, which requests basic auth from the client, and which when
successful sets a cookie and redirects back to the original url. When in an
Apache SOAP test client and I make a call to the original URL, i.e.
http://localhost:8000/soap/urn:service.wsdl, I get a SOAP fault back
containing the HTTP 302 response from the server (as well as a SOAPException
with an unsupported content type as the HTTP 302 response is text/html).
(This call works fine in the test client if I deploy the servlet and SOAP
implementation without our filters that do the authentication redirects)

The actual response coming back from our SingleSignOnFilter is a standard
redirect with the URL we want to redirect to for authentication:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:14:33 GMT
Location:
http://localhost:8080/auth/AuthServlet?ds.sso.return-url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalh
ost%3A8080%2Fsoap%2Furn%3Aservice
Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 (HTTP/1.1 Connector)
Connection: close

followed by a standard Apache error page containing the 302 info. 

Are there any easy ways to do such redirects using Apache SOAP or any other
SOAP implementation? Am I missing something obvious here, i.e. perhaps there
is a way to do redirects in a SOAP message instead of with HTTP headers? Any
help appreciated,

Thanks,

Martin

Re: HTTP redirects and SOAP

Posted by Virender Sandhu <vi...@m-trilogix.com>.

HTTP redirects and SOAPHi Martin

I think if you set the Content-Type: text/xml
it will work.
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Hubley
To: 'soap-user@xml.apache.org'
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:43 PM
Subject: HTTP redirects and SOAP

Hi,

My basic question is does Apache SOAP (or any other SOAP implementation) support http redirect headers in a response for a client?? The gory details follow...

We have a setup where I am using the GLUE SOAP servlet as part of a J2EE ear running in JBoss 2.4.4 (with Tomcat 4.0.1), where the servlet (and our other servlets) is protected by a custom filter implemented for single-sign-on purposes. This filter redirects all requests without our auth cookie to an auth servlet, which requests basic auth from the client, and which when successful sets a cookie and redirects back to the original url. When in an Apache SOAP test client and I make a call to the original URL, i.e. http://localhost:8000/soap/urn:service.wsdl, I get a SOAP fault back containing the HTTP 302 response from the server (as well as a SOAPException with an unsupported content type as the HTTP 302 response is text/html). (This call works fine in the test client if I deploy the servlet and SOAP implementation without our filters that do the authentication redirects)

The actual response coming back from our SingleSignOnFilter is a standard redirect with the URL we want to redirect to for authentication:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:14:33 GMT
Location: http://localhost:8080/auth/AuthServlet?ds.sso.return-url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8080%2Fsoap%2Furn%3Aservice
Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 (HTTP/1.1 Connector)
Connection: close

followed by a standard Apache error page containing the 302 info.

Are there any easy ways to do such redirects using Apache SOAP or any other SOAP implementation? Am I missing something obvious here, i.e. perhaps there is a way to do redirects in a SOAP message instead of with HTTP headers? Any help appreciated,

Thanks,

Martin