URL-encoded content ID for MTOM attachments causes problems with web service clients

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.3.3
  • JBossWS-CXF

Issue

  • After updating from EAP 6.2.3 to 6.3.3, we noticed that the content-id that is generated for MTOM attachments returned by our web service has changed. It now additionally contains the http:// prefix to the namespace.

  • This change causes problems with certain web service clients that do not take into account that the content-id in the SOAP body is URL-encoded ("...@http%3A%2F%2F...") , whereas the following content-id MIME header is written like ...http://....

  • A concrete example is SoapUI 5.0.0, which fails to expand the MTOM attachment prior to schema validation (and as a result, reports a schema compliance violation).

The issue is similar to this, Content from issues.apache.org is not included.Content from issues.apache.org is not included.https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CXF-2669.
The probable commit responsible for this change in behavior is the following:

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  • We have a great number of web service clients using different technologies and do not want to risk breaking compatibility with existing services. Is it possible to override the content-id without using a performance-degrading handler/interceptor, and without having to redesign our JAX-WS-centered web service code ?

Resolution

Apply JBoss EAP 6.4 Cumulative Patch (CP) 6

Root Cause

[BZ-1245706] URL-encoded content ID for MTOM attachments causes problems with web service clients](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1245706)

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