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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15575 cid: prefix on returned attachments confuses MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0 Summary: cid: prefix on returned attachments confuses MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0 Product: Axis Version: 1.0 Platform: PC OS/Version: Windows NT/2K Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: Other Component: Serialization/Deserialization AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cid: prefix on returned attachments confuses MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0 My attempts to communicate with AXIS (server) using MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0 (client) using attachments were unsuccessful. I could successfully send an attachment (DIME) to AXIS but the client would never successfully accept a returned attachment. The referenced attachment that AXIS sends back (say, with the urn:EchoAttachmentsService) to the client has an "href" attribute in the body that looks something like... cid:987623414253512151413145151 The actual DIME attachment has an ID that does *not* have the "cid:"; prefix. It appears that the MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0 is confused by this since it is expecting a "more proper" match (not sure exactly what matching algorithm it uses here). In order to get this to work, I had to change... org\apache\axis\attachments\AttachmentPart.java as follows... public String getContentIdRef() { // Original version. //return Attachments.CIDprefix + getContentId(); // The below version allows MSSOAP Tookit 3.0 to work. They get confused because // the href attribute has something like "cid:1234...."; but the attachment itself // just has 1234... *without* the cid: prefix. return getContentId(); } I compiled just this file and placed its .class file in... <axis-install>\webapps\axis\WEB-INF\classes\org\apache\axis\attachments After restarting Tomcat, this altered .class file kicked in and produced responses without the "cid:"; prefix. This allowed me to write "MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0" clients that could read referenced attachments in a SOAP response from AXIS. Microsoft seems to use a prefix of "uuid:" but they use it both in the href attribute and in the attachment id whereas AXIS uses "cid:"; in the href attribute but not in the attachment id. I don't know much about the meaning of the "cid:"; prefix but, if you want outgoing attachments to work with "MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0", I think the only options are to remove the "cid:"; prefix in the href attribute OR include the "cid:"; prefix in the attachment id.
