SAXException: bad envelope tag - html

Question

I'm trying to connect to a webservice https protected through a webservice client. Eclipse generated a stub based webservice client and looks nice to me. The problem comes when I try to call a method from the webservice:
String a = (String)webservice.userProfileServices(xml);
I'm also using the following SOAP headers:
esgGatewayPort = (new EsgGatewayLocator()).getesgGatewayPort();
//setting the authentication header
PrefixedQName name = new PrefixedQName("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/secext","Security","wsse");
System.out.println("Setting headers for authentication");
org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement sh = new org.apache.axis.message.SOAPHeaderElement(name);
SOAPElement sub;
try {
String clntUserName="myUser";
String clntPassword="myPassword";
sub = sh.addChildElement("UsernameToken");
SOAPElement element = sub.addChildElement("Username");
element.addTextNode(clntUserName);
element = sub.addChildElement("Password");
element.addTextNode(clntPassword);
((org.apache.axis.client.Stub) esgGatewayPort).setHeader(sh);
} catch (SOAPException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
I receive the following:
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag: HTML
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag: HTML
at org.apache.axis.message.EnvelopeBuilder.startElement(EnvelopeBuilder.java:71)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.startElement(DeserializationContext.java:1048)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDriver.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at weblogic.xml.jaxp.WebLogicXMLReader.parse(WebLogicXMLReader.java:133)
at weblogic.xml.jaxp.RegistryXMLReader.parse(RegistryXMLReader.java:153)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.parse(DeserializationContext.java:227)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:696)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.readFromSocket(HTTPSender.java:796)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender.invoke(HTTPSender.java:144)
at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(InvocationStrategy.java:32)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(SimpleChain.java:118)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(SimpleChain.java:83)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:165)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2784)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2767)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2443)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2366)
at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1812)
Any help will be truly appreciated.

Answer 1

Wrong format of the endpoint
Ex: http://localhost:8080/YourService/
Ex: http://localhost:8080/YourService?wsdl
Correct endpoint format to set the constructor
Ex: http://localhost:8080/YourService

Answer 2

I resolved the problem in WAS (WebSphere Application Server), following http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PK54518. Applying the appropriate Fix Pack for your version of WAS resolved the issue.

Answer 3

The problem is probably that you are trying to bind to a https service using http. I had this problem when eclipse generated the stubs for me from a wsdl that was hosted on a https server.
Edit the generated files by eclipse that points to the server URL and it should connect correctly.
Hope that helps.

Answer 4

In my case it got resolved after removing "/" from end of the URL in Axis (not Axis2)
The URL which I was using http://localhost:7000/myWS/
After changing it to http://localhost:7000/myWS worked fine!
Exception:
Main: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag: table
at org.apache.axis.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:101)
at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:701)
at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:435)
at org.apache.axis.handlers.soap.MustUnderstandChecker.invoke(MustUnderstandChecker.java:62)
at org.apache.axis.client.AxisClient.invoke(AxisClient.java:206)

Answer 5

Main: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Bad envelope tag: script
In our case error "Bad envelope tag: script" occurred because of user id got locked