I'm trying to trouble shoot a web service client in my current project. I'm not sure of the platform of the Service Server (Most likely LAMP). I believe there is a fault on their side of the fence as i have eliminated the potential issues with my client. The client is a standard ASMX type web reference proxy auto generated from the service WSDL.
What I need to get to is the RAW SOAP Messages (Request and Responses)
What is the best way to go about this?
I made following changes in web.config to get the SOAP (Request/Response) Envelope. This will output all of the raw SOAP information to the file trace.log.
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true"/>
<sources>
<source name="System.Net" maxdatasize="1024">
<listeners>
<add name="TraceFile"/>
</listeners>
</source>
<source name="System.Net.Sockets" maxdatasize="1024">
<listeners>
<add name="TraceFile"/>
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
<sharedListeners>
<add name="TraceFile" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener"
initializeData="trace.log"/>
</sharedListeners>
<switches>
<add name="System.Net" value="Verbose"/>
<add name="System.Net.Sockets" value="Verbose"/>
</switches>
</system.diagnostics>
You can implement a SoapExtension that logs the full request and response to a log file. You can then enable the SoapExtension in the web.config, which makes it easy to turn on/off for debugging purposes. Here is an example that I have found and modified for my own use, in my case the logging was done by log4net but you can replace the log methods with your own.
public class SoapLoggerExtension : SoapExtension
{
private static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
private Stream oldStream;
private Stream newStream;
public override object GetInitializer(LogicalMethodInfo methodInfo, SoapExtensionAttribute attribute)
{
return null;
}
public override object GetInitializer(Type serviceType)
{
return null;
}
public override void Initialize(object initializer)
{
}
public override System.IO.Stream ChainStream(System.IO.Stream stream)
{
oldStream = stream;
newStream = new MemoryStream();
return newStream;
}
public override void ProcessMessage(SoapMessage message)
{
switch (message.Stage)
{
case SoapMessageStage.BeforeSerialize:
break;
case SoapMessageStage.AfterSerialize:
Log(message, "AfterSerialize");
CopyStream(newStream, oldStream);
newStream.Position = 0;
break;
case SoapMessageStage.BeforeDeserialize:
CopyStream(oldStream, newStream);
Log(message, "BeforeDeserialize");
break;
case SoapMessageStage.AfterDeserialize:
break;
}
}
public void Log(SoapMessage message, string stage)
{
newStream.Position = 0;
string contents = (message is SoapServerMessage) ? "SoapRequest " : "SoapResponse ";
contents += stage + ";";
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(newStream);
contents += reader.ReadToEnd();
newStream.Position = 0;
log.Debug(contents);
}
void ReturnStream()
{
CopyAndReverse(newStream, oldStream);
}
void ReceiveStream()
{
CopyAndReverse(newStream, oldStream);
}
public void ReverseIncomingStream()
{
ReverseStream(newStream);
}
public void ReverseOutgoingStream()
{
ReverseStream(newStream);
}
public void ReverseStream(Stream stream)
{
TextReader tr = new StreamReader(stream);
string str = tr.ReadToEnd();
char[] data = str.ToCharArray();
Array.Reverse(data);
string strReversed = new string(data);
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(stream);
stream.Position = 0;
tw.Write(strReversed);
tw.Flush();
}
void CopyAndReverse(Stream from, Stream to)
{
TextReader tr = new StreamReader(from);
TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(to);
string str = tr.ReadToEnd();
char[] data = str.ToCharArray();
Array.Reverse(data);
string strReversed = new string(data);
tw.Write(strReversed);
tw.Flush();
}
private void CopyStream(Stream fromStream, Stream toStream)
{
try
{
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(fromStream);
StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(toStream);
sw.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd());
sw.Flush();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
string message = String.Format("CopyStream failed because: {0}", ex.Message);
log.Error(message, ex);
}
}
}
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method)]
public class SoapLoggerExtensionAttribute : SoapExtensionAttribute
{
private int priority = 1;
public override int Priority
{
get { return priority; }
set { priority = value; }
}
public override System.Type ExtensionType
{
get { return typeof (SoapLoggerExtension); }
}
}
You then add the following section to your web.config where YourNamespace and YourAssembly point to the class and assembly of your SoapExtension:
<webServices>
<soapExtensionTypes>
<add type="YourNamespace.SoapLoggerExtension, YourAssembly"
priority="1" group="0" />
</soapExtensionTypes>
</webServices>
Try Fiddler2 it will let you inspect the requests and response. It might be worth noting that Fiddler works with both http and https traffic.
Here's a simplified version of the top answer. Add this to the <configuration> element of your web.config or App.config file. It will create a trace.log file in your project's bin/Debug folder. Or, you can specify an absolute path for the log file using the initializeData attribute.
<system.diagnostics>
<trace autoflush="true"/>
<sources>
<source name="System.Net" maxdatasize="9999" tracemode="protocolonly">
<listeners>
<add name="TraceFile" type="System.Diagnostics.TextWriterTraceListener" initializeData="trace.log"/>
</listeners>
</source>
</sources>
<switches>
<add name="System.Net" value="Verbose"/>
</switches>
</system.diagnostics>
It warns that the maxdatasize and tracemode attributes are not allowed, but they increase the amount of data that can be logged, and avoid logging everything in hex.
I would prefer to have the framework do the logging for you by hooking in a logging stream which logs as the framework processes that underlying stream. The following isn't as clean as I would like it, since you can't decide between request and response in the ChainStream method. The following is how I handle it. With thanks to Jon Hanna for the overriding a stream idea
public class LoggerSoapExtension : SoapExtension
{
private static readonly string LOG_DIRECTORY = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["LOG_DIRECTORY"];
private LogStream _logger;
public override object GetInitializer(LogicalMethodInfo methodInfo, SoapExtensionAttribute attribute)
{
return null;
}
public override object GetInitializer(Type serviceType)
{
return null;
}
public override void Initialize(object initializer)
{
}
public override System.IO.Stream ChainStream(System.IO.Stream stream)
{
_logger = new LogStream(stream);
return _logger;
}
public override void ProcessMessage(SoapMessage message)
{
if (LOG_DIRECTORY != null)
{
switch (message.Stage)
{
case SoapMessageStage.BeforeSerialize:
_logger.Type = "request";
break;
case SoapMessageStage.AfterSerialize:
break;
case SoapMessageStage.BeforeDeserialize:
_logger.Type = "response";
break;
case SoapMessageStage.AfterDeserialize:
break;
}
}
}
internal class LogStream : Stream
{
private Stream _source;
private Stream _log;
private bool _logSetup;
private string _type;
public LogStream(Stream source)
{
_source = source;
}
internal string Type
{
set { _type = value; }
}
private Stream Logger
{
get
{
if (!_logSetup)
{
if (LOG_DIRECTORY != null)
{
try
{
DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
string folder = LOG_DIRECTORY + now.ToString("yyyyMMdd");
string subfolder = folder + "\\" + now.ToString("HH");
string client = System.Web.HttpContext.Current != null && System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request != null && System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress != null ? System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress : string.Empty;
string ticks = now.ToString("yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss.fffffff");
if (!Directory.Exists(folder))
Directory.CreateDirectory(folder);
if (!Directory.Exists(subfolder))
Directory.CreateDirectory(subfolder);
_log = new FileStream(new System.Text.StringBuilder(subfolder).Append('\\').Append(client).Append('_').Append(ticks).Append('_').Append(_type).Append(".xml").ToString(), FileMode.Create);
}
catch
{
_log = null;
}
}
_logSetup = true;
}
return _log;
}
}
public override bool CanRead
{
get
{
return _source.CanRead;
}
}
public override bool CanSeek
{
get
{
return _source.CanSeek;
}
}
public override bool CanWrite
{
get
{
return _source.CanWrite;
}
}
public override long Length
{
get
{
return _source.Length;
}
}
public override long Position
{
get
{
return _source.Position;
}
set
{
_source.Position = value;
}
}
public override void Flush()
{
_source.Flush();
if (Logger != null)
Logger.Flush();
}
public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin)
{
return _source.Seek(offset, origin);
}
public override void SetLength(long value)
{
_source.SetLength(value);
}
public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
{
count = _source.Read(buffer, offset, count);
if (Logger != null)
Logger.Write(buffer, offset, count);
return count;
}
public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
{
_source.Write(buffer, offset, count);
if (Logger != null)
Logger.Write(buffer, offset, count);
}
public override int ReadByte()
{
int ret = _source.ReadByte();
if (ret != -1 && Logger != null)
Logger.WriteByte((byte)ret);
return ret;
}
public override void Close()
{
_source.Close();
if (Logger != null)
Logger.Close();
base.Close();
}
public override int ReadTimeout
{
get { return _source.ReadTimeout; }
set { _source.ReadTimeout = value; }
}
public override int WriteTimeout
{
get { return _source.WriteTimeout; }
set { _source.WriteTimeout = value; }
}
}
}
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Method)]
public class LoggerSoapExtensionAttribute : SoapExtensionAttribute
{
private int priority = 1;
public override int Priority
{
get
{
return priority;
}
set
{
priority = value;
}
}
public override System.Type ExtensionType
{
get
{
return typeof(LoggerSoapExtension);
}
}
}
You haven't specified what language you are using but assuming C# / .NET you could use SOAP extensions.
Otherwise, use a sniffer such as Wireshark
This is the command that gets your raw message in c#:
OperationContext.Current.RequestContext.RequestMessage
I wasted 3 days trying with soap extention and it was way too simpler than I thought. Soap extentions are deprecated . I recommend reading these How To: Inspect or Modify Messages on the Client on MSDN. and Using the Message Class