Content-type text/xml causes 403 forbidden response on Apache?

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone can help me with the strange problem.
I'm trying to do an HTTP POST of a SOAP message to my web server which
is running Apache.

POST /SOAP/orderServer.php HTTP/1.0
Host: www.legalresearchassociates.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Length: xxxx

The response I get is a 403 forbidden response.
The thing I don't understand is, when I remove the Content-Type,
or use another Content-Type (such as Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded), it runs fine?

So, if I did the same POST without a content-type,

POST /SOAP/orderServer.php HTTP/1.0
Host: www.legalresearchassociates.com
Content-Length: xxxx

The soap server runs fine and returns a text/xml response back to me as
it is supposed to.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dennis

sdwang@gmail.com wrote:

> POST /SOAP/orderServer.php HTTP/1.0

What does the documentation of /SOAP/orderServer.php say?

> The response I get is a 403 forbidden response.

The error log is your friend.

> So, if I did the same POST without a content-type,
> The soap server runs fine and returns a text/xml response back to me as
> it is supposed to.

Sounds like a broken PHP. Now why am I not in the least surprised?

--
Nick Kew

Hi Nick,

Actually, when I run the same php script on another server, it works
perfectly, so I'm pretty sure it's not broken PHP, and probably a web
server issue. Is that a surprise? :)

Dennis