Getting "WSE003: The input was not a valid SOAP message" on every call to an WSE 2.0 SoapHttpRouter

Question

I already tried some different SOAP-messages, even one which has an empty header and body, but without success to get into my SoapHttpRouter-derived class :-(

Also, when I hit the .asmx-URL with the browser it comes to that error.. here detailed stack trace of the error:

[NotSupportedException: WSE003: The input was not a valid SOAP message.]
Microsoft.Web.Services2.Messaging.SoapHttpRouter.System.Web.IHttpAsyncHandler.BeginProcessRequest(HttpContext httpContext, AsyncCallback callback, Object asyncState) +134
   System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +8677954
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +155

I hope that someone is out there who had the same problem. I would appreciate your help very much!

Answer 1

Typically when I get that message it's because there is a server side error and it's sending the default HTML error page back instead of the properly formatted SOAP message.

I would try stepping through the server-side code (if possible) to make sure there aren't any problems.

Answer 2

Were you aware that WSE 2.0 is extremely obsolete? Even more so than WSE 3.0.

Answer 3

Thx for your explanation John!

Can you tell me, if i have to install WSE 3.0 on webservers (windows server 2003) which already have .NET v3.5 installed? ..or is it sufficient only to copy all the dll´s then including Microsoft.Web.Services3.dll in the web site´s directory?