How to change SOAPAction HTTP header for \SoapClie

Question

I have a rather nitpicky SoapApi that I want to talk to.

I need to change the SoapAction header that is sent with the HTTP request.

I am not talking about \SoapHeader that is passed along with the Soap Envelop as part of the XML message, but the HTTP header SOAPAction.

Using curl I would send the request like this:

curl --header "Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8" --header "SOAPAction: http://tempuri.org/my-custom-action" --data @message.xml http://some-soap-endpoint.asmx --proxy le-proxy:3218

It seems one can only set the SoapAction during SoapClient creation

Answer 1

I stopped using \SoapClient and for this particular "Soap" API (for a different reason as well) used Guzzle instead simply mimicking the curl request.

There, I fired a simple post request with raw XML against the API, and now it is working; even though I think it's a downside of not being able to use the dedicated \SoapService.

If one wonders how to send a XML requests via guzzle, one can do:

$options = [
    'body'    => $body,
    'headers' => [
        "Content-Type" => "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
        'SOAPAction'   => 'tempuri.org/my-custom-action',

    ],
    'proxy'   => 'tcp://le-proxy:3128',
];
$client = new Client();
$soapRequest = $client->createRequest(
    'post',
    "http://some-soap-endpoint.asmx",
    $options
);

try {
    $response = $client->send($soapRequest);
} catch (RequestException $e) {
    /**
     * error handling
     */
}

I consider this a workaround though.