Getting "No Content-Type boundled in the message" while trying to consume soap webservices in mule 4.4.0

The specified input payload for the SOAP Web Service is defined as 'application/xml'.

Error message:

WARN  2024-03-04 15:20:07,908 [[MuleRuntime].uber.07: [paypal].eapp_create_SO.BLOCKING @384c247e] [processor: eapp_create_SO/processors/0/route/1/processors/0/route/1/processors/1; event: 93a13830-d9f7-11ee-b54d-bcd07431c73c] org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain: Interceptor for {http://client.internal.soap.mule.org/}ProxyService#{http://client.internal.soap.mule.org/}invoke has thrown exception, unwinding now

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Content-Type boundled in the message

at org.mule.soap.api.transport.TransportMessage.lambda$getContentType$0(TransportMessage.java:32) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at java.util.Optional.orElseThrow(Optional.java:290) ~[?:1.8.0_292]

at org.mule.soap.api.transport.TransportMessage.getContentType(TransportMessage.java:32) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at org.mule.soap.api.transport.TransportResponse.getContentType(TransportResponse.java:12) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at org.mule.soap.internal.interceptor.MessageDispatcherInterceptor.handleRequestResponse(MessageDispatcherInterceptor.java:86) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at org.mule.soap.internal.interceptor.MessageDispatcherInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageDispatcherInterceptor.java:79) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:307) ~[cxf-core-3.5.5.jar:3.5.5]

at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.doInvoke(ClientImpl.java:528) ~[cxf-core-3.5.5.jar:3.5.5]

at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:439) ~[cxf-core-3.5.5.jar:3.5.5]

at org.mule.soap.internal.client.AbstractSoapCxfClient.invoke(AbstractSoapCxfClient.java:191) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at org.mule.soap.internal.client.AbstractSoapCxfClient.consume(AbstractSoapCxfClient.java:132) ~[mule-soap-engine-1.8.0.jar:?]

at org.mule.extension.ws.internal.connection.WscSoapClient.consume(WscSoapClient.java:56) ~[mule-wsc-connector-1.8.1-mule-plugin.jar:?]

at org.mule.extension.ws.internal.ConsumeOperation.consume(ConsumeOperation.java:92) ~[mule-wsc-connector-1.8.1-mule-plugin.jar:?]

at org.mule.extension.ws.internal.ConsumeOperation$consume$MethodComponentExecutor_paypal.execute(Unknown Source) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.execution.GeneratedMethodComponentExecutor.execute(GeneratedMethodComponentExecutor.java:94) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.execution.CompletableMethodOperationExecutor.doExecute(CompletableMethodOperationExecutor.java:26) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.execution.AbstractCompletableMethodOperationExecutor.execute(AbstractCompletableMethodOperationExecutor.java:61) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.DefaultExecutionMediator.executeCommand(DefaultExecutionMediator.java:237) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.DefaultExecutionMediator.executeWithInterceptors(DefaultExecutionMediator.java:221) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.DefaultExecutionMediator.lambda$execute$1(DefaultExecutionMediator.java:130) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.DefaultExecutionMediator.lambda$new$0(DefaultExecutionMediator.java:73) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.DefaultExecutionMediator.withExecutionTemplate(DefaultExecutionMediator.java:316) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.DefaultExecutionMediator.execute(DefaultExecutionMediator.java:129) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.ComponentMessageProcessor.executeOperation(ComponentMessageProcessor.java:581) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.ComponentMessageProcessor.prepareAndExecuteOperation(ComponentMessageProcessor.java:806) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.ComponentMessageProcessor.lambda$onEventSynchronous$16(ComponentMessageProcessor.java:483) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.ComponentMessageProcessor.onEventSynchronous(ComponentMessageProcessor.java:490) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.module.extension.internal.runtime.operation.ComponentMessageProcessor.lambda$null$6(ComponentMessageProcessor.java:399) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxPeekFuseable$PeekFuseableConditionalSubscriber.onNext(FluxPeekFuseable.java:482) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxMapFuseable$MapFuseableConditionalSubscriber.onNext(FluxMapFuseable.java:287) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxPeekFuseable$PeekFuseableConditionalSubscriber.onNext(FluxPeekFuseable.java:496) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.core.privileged.processor.chain.AbstractMessageProcessorChain$2.onNext(AbstractMessageProcessorChain.java:527) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.runtime.core.privileged.processor.chain.AbstractMessageProcessorChain$2.onNext(AbstractMessageProcessorChain.java:522) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxHide$SuppressFuseableSubscriber.onNext(FluxHide.java:127) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxPeekFuseable$PeekFuseableSubscriber.onNext(FluxPeekFuseable.java:204) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxOnAssembly$OnAssemblySubscriber.onNext(FluxOnAssembly.java:351) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.publisher.FluxSubscribeOnValue$ScheduledScalar.run(FluxSubscribeOnValue.java:178) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.scheduler.SchedulerTask.call(SchedulerTask.java:50) ~[?:?]

at reactor.core.scheduler.SchedulerTask.call(SchedulerTask.java:27) ~[?:?]

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) ~[?:1.8.0_292]

at org.mule.service.scheduler.internal.AbstractRunnableFutureDecorator.doRun(AbstractRunnableFutureDecorator.java:151) ~[?:?]

at org.mule.service.scheduler.internal.RunnableFutureDecorator.run(RunnableFutureDecorator.java:54) ~[?:?]

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) ~[?:1.8.0_292]

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) ~[?:1.8.0_292]

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) ~[?:1.8.0_292]