I have an old client which sends the following SOAP action: http://company.com/webservices/GetInfo
However the new receiving service expects a different SOAP action: http://company.com/webservices/v2/GetInfo The idea is that when a service becomes incompatible with previous clients, you change the namespace to prevent older clients from accessing. So, we added a version number to the webservice namespace, and to all SOAP actions, to control access. However, I discovered that the Axis2 (1.2) service actually accepted the GetInfo action/call and performed the operation, even though the version number was missing from the SOAP action string. When I traced through Axis2 code I saw that the SOAP action mismatch was detected, but that the service code was able to match the operation name GetInfo by comparing the SOAP action suffix "GetInfo" to the operation GetInfo, and so proceeded with handling it. Anyway, is this a configurable behavior? Should this be happening? Thanks, Dave PS: The client I was using was Dotnet, and, since the GetInfoResponse used the new SOAP action namespace, the DotNet client rejected the response, after the request had been run successfully by the service. This was expected.
