On Nov 14, 2013, at 5:38 PM, Andrei Shakirin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Aki,
> 
> Sure, I can introduce the new option here.
> However the question is still valid: does it make sense to force ONLY empty 
> SOAPAction in requests by default, if interface method hasn't action 
> attribute in @WebMethod annotation (OperationInfo contains empty action in 
> the map)?
> If user doesn't care about soap action in interfaces at all (it could be the 
> case of using the Provider<> API for example) is it correct to prohibit all 
> requests with non-empty 
> soap actions?
> Currently it looks a bit strange in case of using proxy implementing 
> Provider<> API: even if SOAP action has reasonable value created by SoapUI 
> (wsdl target namespace/operation name),  CXF responses with error "The given 
> SOAPAction XXX does not match an operation", because OperationInfo has empty 
> action value, that doesn't match to request soap action.
> The same request works fine with CXF 2.5.x and 2.6.x  ... I find that not 
> intuitive.

Well, if the WSDL that is being used by the Provider based service (providing a 
WSDL is used) has something like:

<soap:operation soapAction="”  …>

then it definitely should throw a fault if the operation comes in with anything 
other than “”.  The WSDL contract says it should be the empty string, not 
something else.

For the Java first non-provider case, if the action isn’t specified, it 
defaults to “” which then outputs in the wsdl as soapAction=“” and thus it 
would be required to be that on the wire.

Note that the WS-I Basic Profile states:

R2745 When the wsa:Action header is absent from an ENVELOPE, an HTTP Request 
MESSAGE MUST contain a SOAPAction HTTP header field with a quoted empty string 
value if, in the corresponding WSDL description, the soapAction attribute of 
the wsoap11:operation is either not present, or present with an empty string as 
its value.

So you would need to check the WSDL that CXF is trying to use and that SOAP UI 
is using.  


THAT said, if WS-Addressing is used, things change a little bit.  The WSA 
action SOAP header SHOULD match the SOAPAction HTTP header.  However, the 
profile does allow for the SOAPAction to be “” while the action header is a the 
full URI (in case the Action header is encrypted, that info won’t leak to the 
protocol layer).   Thus, if there is a wsam:Action attribute for the input, it 
SHOULD exactly match the soapAction attribute on the operation.  (Rule R2901 or 
WSI-BP)



Dan




> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Aki Yoshida [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 14. November 2013 15:12
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Checking of SOAP action in SoapActionInInterceptor: regression
>> in proxy services
>> 
>> i think introducing an explicit option like "allowWrongAction" (or something
>> that sound better :-) to turn off this action equality-check is better than 
>> using
>> an empty string to automatically turn off the check. Or we can define a
>> special matchAny kind of action that can be used in opinfo?
>> 
>> 2013/11/13 Andrei Shakirin <[email protected]>:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I have a bit regression under 2.7.7 because of changes in
>>> SoapActionInInterceptor
>>> (https://fisheye6.atlassian.com/changelog/cxf?cs=1368559 )
>>> 
>>> SoapActionInInterceptor requires that the SOAPAction exactly matches to
>> the service operation.
>>> The problem is that there are some scenarios where the proxies using
>> Provider<> API process requests from different clients with any SOAPAction.
>>> 
>>> If you don't see security issue in that, I would ignore the check if
>> SoapOperationInfo action has default SOAP action (configured as empty in
>> SoapBindingConfiguration):
>>> 
>>> Instead:
>>> SoapOperationInfo soi = boi.getExtensor(SoapOperationInfo.class);
>>>            if (soi == null || action.equals(soi.getAction())) {
>>>                return;
>>>            }
>>> 
>>> Will be:
>>> 
>>> SoapOperationInfo soi = boi.getExtensor(SoapOperationInfo.class);
>>>            if ((soi == null) || StringUtils.isEmpty(soi.getAction()) ||
>> action.equals(soi.getAction())) {
>>>                return;
>>>            }
>>> 
>>> WDYT?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrei.
>>> 

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