Mime Type Not Being Set Correctly

Question

I am trying to call a SOAP API over HTTP and I need advices. The problem is that when I set the property to say the content type should be "text/xml" it is not setting it:

    URL url = new URL(SOAP_URI);

    URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

    con.setDoOutput(true);
    con.setRequestProperty("Accept","text/xml charset=utf-8");
    System.out.println(con.getContentType());

When I print out con.getContentType it prints out:

    text/html; charset=UTF-8

How can I set it to text/xml charset=utf-8?

Answer 1

con.getContentType returns the value of the Content-Type header field of URL resource , while setRequestProperty("Accept") changes the property of the Accept header of the request .

Try getRequestProperty to get the Accept header of the request:

System.out.println(con.getRequestProperty("Accept"));

To set and print the Content-Type header of the request:

con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
System.out.println(con.getRequestProperty("Content-Type"));