How to prevent SoapUI from accepting compressed responses from the host?

SoapUI might fail reading the service response with the following error message:

error: Illegal XML character: 0x1f

It is probably because the response is compressed, which prevents SoapUI from reading it. You may change this behaviour by updating SoapUI HTTP settings, either in SoapUI GUI or directly in the soapui-settings.xml file.

In SoapUI GUI

• Go to File > Preferences > HTTP Settings

• Uncheck Accept compressed responses from hosts

WARNING

If you change the SoapUI settings using the GUI, the modifications will only apply to your computer.

In order to apply SoapUI settings to the Squash TA project rather than your computer, copy the soapui-settings.xml file (by default it is located in your user home directory) and paste it at the root of the Squash TA project.

In the soapui-settings.xml file

The soapui-settings.xml file must be located at the root of your Squash TA project (same location as the pom.xml file). Make sure the following setting is set to false:

<con:setting id="HttpSettings@response-compression">false</con:setting>