Hello:

I have a Axis Web Service that sets the sessionid in the SOAP header for
persisting the session. The client is a .Net client that processes the header
as an Unknown Header. It sets the session id received from the Service
request on subsequent requests to the service. However the Axis Web service
does not process the SOAP header received from the .Net client and creates a
new session id for each request from the .Net client. Below are the SOAP
header captured from request and responses using tcpmon:
Axis Response: SOAP header sent by server
<soapenv:Header>
<ns1:sessionID soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"
soapenv:mustUnderstand="0"
xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/session">884521262653014708</ns1:sessionID>
</soapenv:Header>

SOAP Header sent by .Net client:
<soap:Header><ns1:sessionID
soapenv:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/actor/next"
soapenv:mustUnderstand="0" xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/session"
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">884521262653014708</ns1:sessionID></soap:Header>

If you examine these headers closely, these are not exactly the same. The
..Net client is adding a namespace "soapenv". I believe this is the reason the
Axis service is not able to understand the header. How can I modify the
client to use the "soap" namesapce instead of defining a new "soapenv"
namespace?

When I test the service using an axis client, the header from the client is
exactly the same as the header sent by the server and the server is able to
process the header and maintain the session.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks.

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That won't matter... think of the soapenv and soap as being the
variable names-- they can be elephant or donkey if you declare it.

However... the VALUE of these "variables" are different. That would be
a problem. I'm not seeing the soap namespace being declared in the
first. soapenv is being declared in the second...

xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"

You can read that basically as... the variable soapend has the value of
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/... though it's a namespace,
not a variable (two mixed concepts).

You are right, these are "variable" names.

My problem was in the deployment of the service. Thanks for the explanation.
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VT


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