doh! answering my own question but hope it'll be useful. Apparently chunking causes IIS to fall over. This solved the problem:
stub._getServiceClient().getOptions().setProperty(HTTPConstants.CHUNKED, "false"); Alistair -- mov eax,1 mov ebx,0 int 80h From: Alistair Young <alistair.yo...@uhi.ac.uk<mailto:alistair.yo...@uhi.ac.uk>> Reply-To: "java-user@axis.apache.org<mailto:java-user@axis.apache.org>" <java-user@axis.apache.org<mailto:java-user@axis.apache.org>> Date: Tuesday, 8 October 2013 11:41 To: "java-user@axis.apache.org<mailto:java-user@axis.apache.org>" <java-user@axis.apache.org<mailto:java-user@axis.apache.org>> Subject: Axis2 client not getting Digest auth challenge from server I've used Axis2 a fair bit but never seen this. Ruby client gets this when accessing SOAP service: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12 ... WWW-Authenticate: Digest ... the axis2 client gets nothing so it sends a Basic auth header and gets nowhere as the server uses Digest auth but doesn't tell that to the axis2 client. HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator authenticator = new HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator(); authenticator.setUsername("..."); authenticator.setPassword("..."); authenticator.setPreemptiveAuthentication(true); stub._getServiceClient().getOptions().setProperty(HTTPConstants.AUTHENTICATE, authenticator); Is there anything I'm missing in the axis2 client? thanks, Alistair -- mov eax,1 mov ebx,0 int 80h
