----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:43
PM
Subject: HTTP redirects and SOAP
Hi,
My basic question is does Apache SOAP (or
any other SOAP implementation) support http redirect headers in a response for
a client?? The gory details follow...
We have a setup where I am using the GLUE
SOAP servlet as part of a J2EE ear running in JBoss 2.4.4 (with Tomcat 4.0.1),
where the servlet (and our other servlets) is protected by a custom filter
implemented for single-sign-on purposes. This filter redirects all requests
without our auth cookie to an auth servlet, which requests basic auth from the
client, and which when successful sets a cookie and redirects back to the
original url. When in an Apache SOAP test client and I make a call to the
original URL, i.e. http://localhost:8000/soap/urn:service.wsdl,
I get a SOAP fault back containing the HTTP 302 response from the server (as
well as a SOAPException with an unsupported content type as the HTTP 302
response is text/html). (This call works fine in the test client if I deploy
the servlet and SOAP implementation without our filters that do the
authentication redirects)
The actual response coming back from our
SingleSignOnFilter is a standard redirect with the URL we want to redirect to
for authentication:
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:14:33 GMT
Location: http://localhost:8080/auth/AuthServlet?ds.sso.return-url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8080%2Fsoap%2Furn%3Aservice
Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.1 (HTTP/1.1
Connector)
Connection:
close
followed by a standard Apache error page
containing the 302 info.
Are there any easy ways to do such
redirects using Apache SOAP or any other SOAP implementation? Am I missing
something obvious here, i.e. perhaps there is a way to do redirects in a SOAP
message instead of with HTTP headers? Any help appreciated,
Thanks,
Martin
