org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: First Element must contain the local name, Envelope , but found html

Question

What could be the reason for the following exception from Axis... Http verion used was 1.0.

Read this could be solved if the following property is set

stub._getServiceClient().getOptions().
               setProperty(org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.CHUNKED,
Boolean.FALSE);

But the above property is applicable only for HTTP version 1.1 as per axis docs. This property will be ignored by the transport framework if the HTTP version is 1.0.

Any thoughts?

org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: First Element must contain the local name, Envelope , but found html
 at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:430)
 at org.apache.axis2.transport.TransportUtils.createSOAPMessage(TransportUtils.java:90)
 at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.handleResponse(OutInAxisOperation.java:353)
 at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:416)
 at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:228)
 at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:163)


Caused by: org.apache.axiom.soap.SOAPProcessingException: First Element must contain the local name, Envelope , but found html
 at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.constructNode(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:251)
 at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.createOMElement(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:209)
 at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.createNextOMElement(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:191)
 at org.apache.axiom.om.impl.builder.StAXOMBuilder.next(StAXOMBuilder.java:172)
 at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.getSOAPEnvelope(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:156)
 at org.apache.axiom.soap.impl.builder.StAXSOAPModelBuilder.<init>(StAXSOAPModelBuilder.java:105)
 at org.apache.axis2.builder.BuilderUtil.getSOAPBuilder(BuilderUtil.java:677)
 at org.apache.axis2.transport.TransportUtils.createDocumentElement(TransportUtils.java:182)
 at org.apache.axis2.transport.TransportUtils.createSOAPMessage(TransportUtils.java:112)
 at org.apache.axis2.transport.TransportUtils.createSOAPMessage(TransportUtils.java:88)

Answer 1

Try using a sniffer like tcpmon to see the actual response from the service. My guess is that the client is using a target URL that does not exist on the server and the server is responding with a 404 containing HTML instead of a SOAP envelope.