Is there a way in CXF to disable the SoapCompressed header for debugging purposes?

Question

I'm watching CXF service traffic using DonsProxy, and the CXF client sends an HTTP header "SoapCompressed":

HttpHeadSubscriber starting...
Sender is CLIENT at 127.0.0.1:2680
Packet ID:0-1
POST /yada/yada HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8
SoapCompressed: true
Accept-Encoding: gzip,gzip;q=1.0, identity; q=0.5, *;q=0
SOAPAction: ""
Accept: */*
User-Agent: Apache CXF 2.2
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Host: localhost:9090
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

I'd like to turn SoapCompressed off in my dev environment so that I can see the SOAP on the wire. I've searched Google and grepped the CXF source code, but don't see anything in the docs or code that reference this. Any idea how to make the client send "SoapCompressed: off" instead, without routing it through Apache HTTPD or the like? Is there a way to configure it at the CXF client, in other words?

Answer 1

The client for org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.client.AbstractClient has points where you set the headers in a key-value map (Map). "SoapCompressed", "false".

Answer 2

A grep of the CXF codebase doesn't yield "SoapCompressed" at all. I really don't think it's CXF that is sending that. The Accept-Encoding thing is also suspect as that is only sent if you enable the GZIP interceptors. Is it possible that the proxy thing you are using is adding it?