WCF client exception: Unrecognized message version - c#

I hit this error today when deploying a WCF client to QA:
System.ServiceModel.CommunicationException: Unrecognized message version.
In Fiddler I noticed that the WCF client sends its request wrapped in a SOAP Envelope (as expected) but that the response from the remote web service is not wrapped in a SOAP Envelope. That is, our local debug web service sends a response like this:
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Header />
<s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Response xmlns="urn:example">
<Success>true</Success>
...
</Response>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
But the remote web service is just sending this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ns0:Response xmlns:ns0="urn:example">
<ns0:Success>true</ns0:Success>
...
</ns0:Response>
As far as I can tell the WCF client is throwing the exception because there's no SOAP Envelope. So my questions are:
Is my assumption correct or should be I looking elsewhere?
Is there some way to configure the WCF client's bindings to remove the SOAP Envelope expectation?
Should I just tell the remote service implementor to fix their service (which they wrote just for us from a supplied WSDL)?
The WCF client is using basicHttpBindings (and HTTP Basic Authentication over SSL/TLS). I'd considered using IClientMessageInspector.AfterReceiveReply() to rewrite the response but the exception gets thrown before that method is invoked, i.e.: We already have an implementation of it for request/response logging and it's not hitting a breakpoint in there.
More info:
After communicating with the service developer it sounds like they completely ignored the .wsdl and (svcutil generated) IService.cs files we gave them and wrote a POX (Plain-Old XML) service from scratch.
I'm not confident that we can convince them to do it properly, so now I'm looking for tips to convert a properly behaving WCF SOAP client into a POX client.

This may be caused by that your service uses Soap1.2 while you are using a different version to call it.
Please try "Add Service Reference" - "Advanced..." - "Add Web Reference..." as a compatibility approach.

I had this issue as well. I know this is an older post, but in my case I modified the app.config file in my C# .NET app that calls this web service. I think it was adding
<security mode="Transport" />
to the basicHttpBinding element that solved it. I also extended the timeouts and maxBufferPoolSize.
Microsoft has documentation that describes this, in case this helps someone else.

Related

Return XML when consuming a secure web service

I am currently trying to consume a generated report as a webservice to integrate some data into our system. Because the service itself is generated, the response can change frequently as things are added to it. While the endpoint and response may change, the request body will always be the same (taken from soapui):
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soapenv:Body>
<Execute_Report>
</Execute_Report>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
I'm trying to figure out a way to make the above request for any endpoint (different reports) and allow for changes in the response. Ideally, I want to just return the raw XML of the response as I can allow for change easier with how I handle the XML if I'm not being tied to a data contract.
It is also worth noting that the service uses WS-Security and a Username/Password is passed as part of the request.
I've used WCF and the files generated from svcutil work great when I don't expect the service to change frequently. However because these webservices are generated change is expected, and if I can get away from it, I don't want to be at the mercy of re-generating a new file with svcutil whenever things change, or have to generate a file (and maintain) for all the different generated webservices.
At the end of the day the question is: How do I consume a webservice and return the raw XML while still being able to apply WS-Security to the request?
I kept searching around and found this answer:
.NET client authentication and SOAP credential headers for a CXF web service
This allowed me to do what I was after.

Add Web Service Reference fails

I'm trying to connect a SAP soap provider with a C# program...
#Edit: SAP on it's non-public webservice provider, prompts for user and password (before anything)
Using the info here:
I came to the webservice I have to attach to, and when user/password prompted, I've placed it. However I think I've written the password wrong (See EDIT II down below), because the soap response is this one:
- <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
- <soap:Body>
- <soap:Fault>
<faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>
<faultstring>No binding data for configuration key: "005056AA63891ED480C5CC2F714805E3"</faultstring>
- <detail xmlns:slibfault="http://xml.sap.com/2005/11/esi/slib/fault/">
<slibfault:timestamp>Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:01:21 GMT</slibfault:timestamp>
- <slibfault:exception>
<slibfault:text>No binding data for configuration key: "005056AA63891ED480C5CC2F714805E3"</slibfault:text>
<slibfault:position program="CL_SRT_WSP_WSDL_HANDLER=======CP" include="CL_SRT_WSP_WSDL_HANDLER=======CM00K" line="82" />
</slibfault:exception>
</detail>
</soap:Fault>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Now, User and Password aren't prompted, as if a "Remind My Password" checkbox were checked.
Is there any way to refresh the "Visual Studio WebService cache" or something?
#EDIT II: I've tried twice now (by adding it to another project with the same results) and it's not problem that the passwd has been miswritten, the pass is correct, but the reference builder keeps showing this.
WebServices Found at this URL:
There was an error downloading 'http://fooserver:8000/sap/bc/srt/wsdl/srvc_005056AA63891ED480C5CC2F714805E3/wsdl11/allinone/ws_policy/document?sap-client=400/_vti_bin/ListData.svc/$metadata'.
The request failed with the error message:
--
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://s
Any Ideas?
When this response is the one you receive from SAP, it means the service exposed has been deprecated.
I cannot explain what is happening from the SAP side, (since I'm a C# dev), but What I do can tell you is that the SAP side is intentionally (manual abap developer handling) not expecting further communications from clients.
So... ask your ABAPer on your SAP side, he may have done something with the service you where trying to connect to, since it's no longer available.
You can also verify that by going to the wsdl page "manually" by placing it in the browser. You'll see the same XML response.
#Icing-on-the-cake Edit: If you encounter the issue that credentials is somewhat stored/cached by .Net, simply
go to the Solution Panel,
left click on the project on which you tried to add the reference
and select unload project.
Afterwards repeat that but to Load that same project.
That will "refresh" the credentials "stored".

Using SOAP 1.1 instead of 1.2 [duplicate]

I am connecting to a third-party end point via WCF and I have one problem. The schema for the SOAP envelope that is generated by WCF isn't compatible with the end point.
Currently WCF is generating this:
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
But it needs to be this:
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
I've tested this in soapUI to confirm this is the problem, but how can I control this in WCF? I used the Add Service Reference option in Visual Studio to generate the service.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Andy
Most likely, you have an issue with the SOAP version. What binding are you using??
basicHttpBinding defaults to SOAP 1.1, while wsHttpBinding defaults to SOAP 1.2
This is SOAP 1.1 (default in basicHttpBinding):
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
while this is SOAP 1.2 (default in wsHttpBinding):
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
Possible solutions:
1) either you can just switch bindings and that's all there is - you need to make sure to check for security settings and so on (which differ between basic and wsHttpBinding)
or
2) you need to create your own custom binding and explicitly specify the SOAP version you need

Soap web service and android client using ksoap protocal mismatch

I have and android client, that uses ksoap to communicate with a wsdl web service written in c# asp.net. I have a problem with matching the argument types between the web service and the client.
The web server expects to this kind of request (auto generated):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetDetails xmlns="http://host.org/">
<event_id>int</event_id>
</GetDetails>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
the client sends requests using ksoap, and they look like this:
<v:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:c="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:v="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<v:Header />
<v:Body>
<n0:GetDetails id="o0" c:root="1" xmlns:n0="http://tempuri.org">
<event_id i:type="d:int">1</event_id>
</n0:GetDetails>
</v:Body>
</v:Envelope>
For some reason the WS parses the following' client's request as 0 (I guess because of the additional type attributes - i:type="d:int") when the request is assembled manually to look like the first option, it works correctly.
How can i make the web service read the ksoap format correctly or how can i change it's expected format to look like ksoap request. (the web service soap protocol is auto generated).
Well the solution has 2 parts:
1. regarding removing the attribute types, I found the answer here:
using addMapping without the "i:type=" attribute in ksoap2 for android
I neede to set:
envelope.implicitTypes = true;
The name space has to end with a backspace, and i missed it.

How to test a WCF Webservice with JMeter?

I have a WCF Webservice hosted on IIS which exposes a single method that takes three integer parameters. I have a simple, console based client which can call this method.
int InsertNewOrder(short quantity, int custID, int productID);
If my understanding is correct, I need to provide JMeter a SOAP envelope with the details of the method to be called and parameters to be passed. I have seen many examples similar to below:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">;
<soapenv:Body>
<ns2:InsertNewOrder xmlns:ns2="?????">
<ns2:Param1>${1}</ns2:Param1>
<ns2:Param1>${1}</ns2:Param1>
<ns2:Param1>${1}</ns2:Param1>
</ns2:InsertNewOrder>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
However, from looking at my WSDL doc, I don't see where it refers to any of the parameters needed to pass to the method. I've also used Fiddler to examine the client's soap messages to the service. Again, I don't see where it's passing the parameters. As a result, I don't know how to create a simple SOAP envelope I can use with JMeter to test this service.
Can anyone advise as to why the WSDL doc does not provide any details of the method parameters, or explain how I can create the necessary SOAP envelope for use with JMeter?
I am coding in C# using VS 2010, JMeter 2.4, IIS v6, wsHttpBinding.
Disclaimer: I'm not a WSDL expert, so i can't tell you why the doc doesn't provide detail.
To generate the SOAP envelope for JMeter, I've used the free version of soapUI.
Steps
Import WSDL into soap
Create a default request for the method
Set the request view to RAW, and copy into JMeter
This provides me all the information I need for jmeter, including parameters, user-agent, endpoint, etc.
Use JMeter's "HTTP Proxy Server" to record the WCF calls with your normal testclient, and then play them back later when testing. This is what I have experienced to be fastest, and gives the best test-cases (because you record them with your normal client, or test client of choice).
Set up JMeters HTTP Proxy Server as per instructions. Then, make sure the WCF (or any SOAP) client use that proxy. The important part of the WCF client configuation is (replace my ... with normal config):
<system.serviceModel>
<bindings>
...
<wsHttpBinding>
<binding ... proxyAddress="http://proxyServerName:8080" useDefaultWebProxy="false" ...>
...
<security mode="None">
<message establishSecurityContext="false"/>
<transport clientCredentialType="None"/>
</security>
proxyServerName is localhost, if the WCF client runs on the same machine as JMeter (normal when creating the test cases).
Also, I got an error message using HTTP Proxy, if I did not turn off security as shown above. The same security settings must also be at the WCF service server.
Happy testing! :-)

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