Use the TCPTunnel tool to see the responce the server is sending. My guess is
that your server is sending some sort of HTTP error (500, 404, etc). This error
from your web server is not a valid SOAP message and so you'll get this error.
This has been my experience with this type of error.
-Jim
> I am getting an white space required error while invoking a webservice
> deployed in websphere3.5.4. I don't get this exception when i invoke the
> same service in the websphere test environment in vaj. Could anyone tell me
> what this error may be.
>
> Thanks
> Irfan
>
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: White space is required between the public
> identi
> fier and the system identifier.
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java:1056
> )
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDTDScanner.reportFatalXMLError(XMLDTDS
> canner.java:651)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDTDScanner.scanExternalID(XMLDTDScanne
> r.java:1198)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDTDScanner.scanDoctypeDecl(XMLDTDScann
> er.java:1104)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.scanDoctypeDecl(XMLDoc
> umentScanner.java:2192)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.access$000(XMLDocument
> Scanner.java:86)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$XMLDeclDispatcher.disp
> atch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:776)
> at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentS
> canner.java:381)
> at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:948)
> at
> org.apache.soap.util.xml.XercesParserLiaison.read(XercesParserLiaison
> .java:85)
> at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.invoke(Call.java:157)
> at WebsphereClientTest.main(WebsphereClientTest.java:25)
> SOAPException = SOAP-ENV:Protocol , <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML
> 2.0
> //EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE>
> </HEAD><BODY>
> <H1>Bad Request</H1>
> Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<P>
> Client sent malformed Host header<P>
> </BODY></HTML>
