Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction

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   [SoapRpcMethod(Action = "http://cyberindigo/TempWebService/InsertXML",
    RequestNamespace = "http://cyberindigo/TempWebService/Request",
    RequestElementName = "InsertXMLRequest",
    ResponseNamespace = "http://cyberindigo/TempWebService/Response",
    ResponseElementName = "InsertXMLResponse",
    Use = System.Web.Services.Description.SoapBindingUse.Literal)]

    [WebMethod]
    public string InsertXML(string Jobs)
    {
        return "Hi";
    }

The Problem when I am accessing it using XMLHttpRequest it gives following error Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: http://Cyberindigo/TempWebService/InsertXML

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The source of the next part of this post is:

http://bluebones.net/2003/07/server-did-not-recognize-http-header-soapaction/

(since the OP didn't want to give attribution, and thanks to Peter)

Please note that bakert is the original author of the text, not the OP.

Seeing as nowhere on the internet can I find an explanation of this error I thought I’d share the fruits of my long search for this bug.

It means (at least in my case) that you are accessing a web service with SOAP and passing a SOAPAction parameter in the HTTP request that does not match what the service is expecting.

I got in a pickle because we moved a web service from one server to another and thus I changed the “namespace” (don’t get confused between web service namespaces and .net namespaces) in the calling C# file to match the new server. But the server doesn’t care about the actual web reality of http://yournamespace.com/blah it only cares that you send it what you have said you are expecting on the server. It doesn’t care if there’s actually anything there or not.

So basically the web service was moved from http://foo.com/servicename to http://bar.com/servicename but the “namespace” of the web service stayed as http://foo.com/servicename because no one changed it.

And that only took about 4 hours to work out!

If you’re having a similar problem but can’t work what I’m saying here, feel free to mail me on bakert+web@gmail.com – I wouldn’t wish my four hours on anyone!

Admin1

I had similar issue. To debug the problem, I've run Wireshark and capture request generated by my code. Then I used XML Spy trial to create a SOAP request (assuming you have WSDL) and compared those two.

This should give you a hint what goes wrong.

ya23_294300

I had this same problem, but the solution for me was that I was pointing to the wrong web service. I had updated the web reference correctly. But we store the URl for the service in an encrypted file, and I didn't update the file with the correct service encrypted.

But all these suggestions really helped me to realize where to go for debugging.

Thanks!

user_114078580

I found out that my web reference was out of date and the code was calling a removed web service.

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