Getting junk characters in SoapUI response?
Well, this is quite common issue in SoapUI during web service testing.
These junk characters are nothing but SoapUI compressed response.
Follow below steps so that you can see actual XML response without encoding:
1) Navigate to File > Preferences > ‘HTTP Settings’ on SoapUI interface
2) Verify ‘Response compression‘ property on HTTP Settings page
– Uncheck the option ‘Accept compress responses from hosts‘
3) Verify ‘Disable Response Decompression‘ property (just below ‘Response compression’ )
– Make sure ‘Disable decompression of compressed responses‘ checkbox is unchecked
That’s it!
Now submit the request XML once again and you will get the response in XML structure.
If you have any of these two options checked, SoapUI encodes the response file and you see junk characters instead of XML.
You can still see the encoded SoapUI response if there is any encoding rule in WSDL file.
Please leave your comment below if the above solution does not fix your problem and still see junk characters in SoapUI response.
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Hi,
I have tried the changes in preferences tab of soapui but still issue persists. Can you please help on this ?
I have unchecked the Response compression but still issue persists. Can you please help on this still where I need to make changes ?
Thanks. That fixed my issue.
Perfect