Remove Action Node mustUnderstand from WCF soap request using IClientMessageInspector

Question

I am hitting a WCF service using a WSDL I don't have access to and cannot modify. For one of the requests the remote service is dying because we are sending the:

<Action s:mustUnderstand="1"....>

Having searched extensively I cannot find a simple solution to my problem. So, in a typical message:

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header>
    <Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none" />
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <retrieveBooking xmlns="http://services.rccl.com/Interfaces/RetrieveBooking">
      <OTA_ReadRQ TransactionActionCode="RetrievePrice" SequenceNmbr="1" Version="1" xmlns="http://www.opentravel.org/OTA/2003/05/alpha">

I figured I could remove this node as part of message inspector:

internal class MyMessageInspector : IClientMessageInspector
{
   public object BeforeSendRequest(ref Message aRequest, IClientChannel aChannel)
   {
        //Get rid of mustUnderstand Action node
        foreach (MessageHeaderInfo headerInfo in aRequest.Headers.UnderstoodHeaders)
        {
            aRequest.Headers.UnderstoodHeaders.Remove(headerInfo);
        }

        return null;
   }
}

however even though the aRequest.Headers.UnderstoodHeaders is empty after I remove all the elements, I am still seeing the Action node being emitted in the XML.

What do I have to do to make this work?
How do I get at the message contents so that I can inspect the name of the first node of the body tag retrieveBooking in this case? (I only need to do this for a specific message, not all of them)

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '16 at 00:16

And the answer ends up being very simple in the end.

public object BeforeSendRequest(ref Message aRequest, IClientChannel aChannel)
{
   //For the CabinDetail message the API provider has requested that we REMOVE the XML action node from the header as it causes their end to fail
   //<s:Header>
   //<Action s:mustUnderstand="1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none" />
   //</s:Header>
   if (aRequest.ToString().Contains("CabinDetail"))
   {
       int headerIndexOfAction = aRequest.Headers.FindHeader("Action", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2005/05/addressing/none");
       aRequest.Headers.RemoveAt(headerIndexOfAction);
   }

   return null;
}

Excuse me, i am dealing with the same problem, but i am using IClientMessageFormatter instead. When i return the new Message without the header i get an exeception: no SOAPAction header!'. How did you fixed this? — ffenix, Nov 02 '18 at 23:43

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 18 '20 at 15:51

4

Replace

[System.ServiceModel.OperationContractAttribute(Action ="", ReplyAction="*")]

By

[System.ServiceModel.OperationContractAttribute(Action ="*", ReplyAction="*")]

edited Nov 18 '20 at 15:51

Cee McSharpface

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answered Sep 17 '20 at 12:05

Felipe Bulle

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Remove Action Node mustUnderstand from WCF soap request using IClientMessageInspector

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