Axis JAVA client generates malformed HTTP request

Hi I am trying to invoke a webservice using Axis based client. I have configured commonshttpsender through the configuration file as a core http handler for the AXIS. But the request generated by the client seems to be malformde.You can see the missing open tag after the header section, hence the corporate firewall proxy is throwing HTTP 400 error  invalid headers. You can see the the lines "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?"... I have capture this request using tcpmon.

POST http://ctk-sq.innovataw3svc.com/ctk-sq.asmx HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://CustomDataTimeTableToolKit.com/GetSchedules"
User-Agent: Axis/1.4
Host: ctk-sq.innovataw3svc.com
Content-Length: 385
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
 version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><soapenv:Body><GetSchedules xmlns="http://CustomDataTimeTableToolKit.com/"><_sSchedulesSearchXML>Abc</_sSchedulesSearchXML></GetSchedules></soapenv:Body></soapenv:Envelope>