HTTP Put request works using Sun Jersey Client 1.19, but same request is not using SoapUI or Postman

Question

I have a server that provides REST webservice to edit users data on the server's DB, the company that developed the webservice provided a sample client that uses com.sun.jersey.api.client , below is the sample code:

import com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.config.ClientConfig;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.config.DefaultClientConfig;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.filter.HTTPBasicAuthFilter;
import com.sun.jersey.api.client.filter.LoggingFilter;
import com.sun.jersey.api.representation.Form;
import java.util.Properties;

public class entryClass {

    private static Client client;
    private static ClientConfig config;
    private static String truststoreFileName = "C:\\trust.jks";
    private static String truststorePassword = "123456";
    private static String username = "mahmoud";
    private static String password = "Avaya123$";
    private static String uri = "https://avaya-smgr01.atcom.ae/web/mgmtwebservice";
    private final static String entityType = "user";
    private final static String entityXmlData = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><delta:deltaUserList xmlns:delta=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/deltaImport\" xmlns:ns3=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import_sessionmanager\" xmlns:ns4=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import_csm_b5800\" xmlns:ns5=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import_csm_mm\" xmlns:ns6=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import_csm_cm\" xmlns:ns7=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import_csm_agent\" xmlns:ns8=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import\" xmlns:tns=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/deltaImport userdeltaimport.xsd\"><delta:userDelta><loginName>ghaith@atcom.ae</loginName><commProfileSet><commProfileSetName>Primary</commProfileSetName><isPrimary>true</isPrimary><commProfileList><commProfile xmlns:ns9=\"http://xml.avaya.com/schema/import_csm_cm\" xsi:type=\"ns9:xmlStationProfile\"><commProfileType>CM</commProfileType><ns9:cmName>AVAYA-CM</ns9:cmName><ns9:useExistingExtension>true</ns9:useExistingExtension><ns9:extension>727</ns9:extension><ns9:cor>55</ns9:cor></commProfile></commProfileList></commProfileSet></delta:userDelta></delta:deltaUserList>";
    private final static String updateType = "merge";

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Properties properties = System.getProperties();
        properties.put("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", truststoreFileName);
        properties.put("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", truststorePassword);
        config = new DefaultClientConfig();
        client = Client.create(config);
        client.addFilter(new LoggingFilter(System.out));
        client.addFilter(new HTTPBasicAuthFilter(username, password));
        final Form form = new Form();
        form.add("entityType", entityType);
        form.add("entityXMLData", entityXmlData);
        form.add("updateMode", updateType);
        client.resource(uri).put(String.class, form);
    }
}

Running the above code gives the following output:

1 * Client out-bound request
1 > PUT https://avaya-smgr01.atcom.ae/web/mgmtwebservice
1 > Authorization: Basic bWFobW91ZDpBdmF5YTEyMyQ=
updateMode=merge&entityType=user&entityXMLData=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%221.0%22+encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%3Cdelta%3AdeltaUserList+xmlns%3Adelta%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2FdeltaImport%22+xmlns%3Ans3%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport_sessionmanager%22+xmlns%3Ans4%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport_csm_b5800%22+xmlns%3Ans5%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport_csm_mm%22+xmlns%3Ans6%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport_csm_cm%22+xmlns%3Ans7%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport_csm_agent%22+xmlns%3Ans8%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport%22+xmlns%3Atns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport%22+xmlns%3Axsi%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2001%2FXMLSchema-instance%22+xsi%3AschemaLocation%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2FdeltaImport+userdeltaimport.xsd%22%3E%3Cdelta%3AuserDelta%3E%3CloginName%3Eghaith%40atcom.ae%3C%2FloginName%3E%3CcommProfileSet%3E%3CcommProfileSetName%3EPrimary%3C%2FcommProfileSetName%3E%3CisPrimary%3Etrue%3C%2FisPrimary%3E%3CcommProfileList%3E%3CcommProfile+xmlns%3Ans9%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fxml.avaya.com%2Fschema%2Fimport_csm_cm%22+xsi%3Atype%3D%22ns9%3AxmlStationProfile%22%3E%3CcommProfileType%3ECM%3C%2FcommProfileType%3E%3Cns9%3AcmName%3EAVAYA-CM%3C%2Fns9%3AcmName%3E%3Cns9%3AuseExistingExtension%3Etrue%3C%2Fns9%3AuseExistingExtension%3E%3Cns9%3Aextension%3E727%3C%2Fns9%3Aextension%3E%3Cns9%3Acor%3E55%3C%2Fns9%3Acor%3E%3C%2FcommProfile%3E%3C%2FcommProfileList%3E%3C%2FcommProfileSet%3E%3C%2Fdelta%3AuserDelta%3E%3C%2Fdelta%3AdeltaUserList%3E
1 * Client in-bound response
1 < 200
1 < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
1 < Connection: keep-alive
1 < Set-Cookie: avaya-smgr01.atcom.ae=1gFtZiuD53fAwbKWNBCTjBl2PWFuZ4_FwiiE0Oo535NMf70FsGdJp-2pC2kUcn8C*AAJTSQACMDE.*; path=/; secure; HttpOnly
1 < Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=DmYwtUKB18qGIWfAlEmQcK5D1-NNgPmOHiO95SmJ.avaya-smgr01; path=/web; Max-Age=0; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:00 GMT
1 < Pragma: no-cache
1 < Expires: 0
1 < Content-Length: 104
1 < X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
1 < Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 08:38:19 GMT
1 < Content-Type: application/xml
1 < 
Operation=Update User, LoginId: mahmoud, Action: Update, merge, Object=ghaith@atcom.ae, Status: Success

I'm trying to reproduce the same request on SoapUI or Postman, but the server keeps giving forbidden 403.

what i understand from the code is:

• request requires Basic HTTP Authentication
• request is sent over HTTPS so there must be a trust store that contains the service CA
• Jersey will encode the request to URL encoded request and use the values as request parameters in the URI like so: https://avaya-smgr01.atcom.ae/web/mgmtwebservice?updateMode=merge&entityType=user&entityXMLData=%3C%3Fxml+version%3D%22.......%3E

I've tried calling the URL with the encoded format using postman and soapui and set up basic HTTP authentication and disabled URL formatting on both, but still the server is responding with forbidden 403. Also tried to to let SoapUI and Postman to encode the request but still gives the same error

Can someone tell me what am I missing ?

Answer 1

HTTP PUT 请求应该具有在正文中指定的值，而不是在 URL 的查询参数中。