I've been getting the following error when trying to login to the Salesforce Partner API with invalid credentials and SOAP Compression enabled. Valid credentials and subsequent API calls have been working fine.
System.InvalidOperationException: Response is not well-formed XML. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: ' ', hexadecimal value 0x1F, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 1..
The exception was coming out of the following method from the GzipWebRequest as defined here:
public override WebResponse GetResponse()
{
return new GzipWebResponse(wr.GetResponse ());
}
It turns out this is truly ancient .NET 1.1 code that is no longer applicable for .NET 2.0 and later projects. This has been the case for some time, I've just never gone into this part of the code base as it hasn't been failing until now.
Rather than manually accepting and decompressing the response stream we now just set EnableDecompression to true when inheriting the generated HttpWebClientProtocol (the Generated Proxy Client).
There is still the need to manually compress the outbound request. Improvements can be made here too by ditching the third party ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll and using the built in System.IO.Compression.GZipStream class. There isn't anything wrong with the SharpZipLib but it's one less DLL to cart around.
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