How to see what Axis2 sends and receives?

Question

I have Axis2 created web service client. This service uses both SSL and WS-Security so I use rampart. I think that my client sends correct query, but I got exception:

org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: Must Understand check failed for header http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd : Security
at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.checkMustUnderstand(AxisEngine.java:97)
at org.apache.axis2.engine.AxisEngine.receive(AxisEngine.java:163)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.handleResponse(OutInAxisOperation.java:364)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.send(OutInAxisOperation.java:417)
at org.apache.axis2.description.OutInAxisOperationClient.executeImpl(OutInAxisOperation.java:229)
at org.apache.axis2.client.OperationClient.execute(OperationClient.java:165)
at pl.firstdata.www.wdx.business.card.CardServiceStub.getBalance(CardServiceStub.java:1570)
at pl.firstdata.www.wdx.business.card.wdx_client.main(wdx_client.java:164)

Is there any way to see "bare" query and response with HTTP headers?

While this service use SSL I think I cannot use HTTP monitor, and this should be done by axis2 after "applying" WS-Security but before SSL. I can enable such logging on my emulator (without SSL) and it seems like that:

POST /webservices/emu/get_info.hdb HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: ""
User-Agent: Axis2
Host: 127.0.0.1:8765
Content-Length: 4585

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xenc="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#"&gt;&lt;soapenv:Header xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing"&gt;&lt;wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" soapenv:mustUnderstand="1"><xenc:EncryptedKey Id="EncKeyId-0D71FF61F3796881F812803190645315"><xenc:EncryptionMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#rsa-1_5" /><ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"&gt;
<wsse:SecurityTokenReference><wsse:KeyIdentifier ...
...

Answer 1

Use the tcpmon tool for this.

Please note that in most Linux based installations, this will most probably be built for you. Once you've done with the building process, you can find the executable at ${AXIS2C_HOME}/bin/tools on Linux, or at %AXIS2C_HOME%\bin\tools on MS Windows.

Answer 2

I use stunel with tcpmon. Steps:

1. my axis2 app do normal HTTP query; this query is send to tcpmon
2. tcpmon logs it and sends query to stunel
3. stunel adds SSL and sends endcrypted query to destination server
4. stunel receives encrypted response, decrypts it and sends back to tcpmon
5. tcpmon logs decrypted response and sends it to my axis2 app