Need help !!! Regarding invoking Webservices with Basic Auth

Question

I have a partner who requires me to pass credentials in order to invoke their Webservice.
I have created a Partner link using a local WSDL (copy of the original partner's WSDL) and assigned the following properties
<property name="HTTPbasicHeaders">credentials</property>
<property name="basicUsername">hilal.khan</property>
<property name="basicPassword">welcome123</property>
And invoked this partnerlink in a Synchronous BPEL process, the invocation fails with the following error message
<remoteFault xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"><part name="summary"><summary>exception on JaxRpc invoke: HTTP transport error: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: java.security.PrivilegedActionException: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Bad response: 401 Unauthorized</summary>
</part></remoteFault>
Looks like I am missing the way in which these credentials should be sent, I know for sure that the values being sent are correct - I tried to open the WSDL from a browser and it prompted me with a username/password window and I entered the same credentials and it then took me to the WSDL. Can one of you please help me figure out the issue and resolve it.

Answer 1

Hi,
In BPEL.xml file that is built for bpel pass the binding with the httpUsername and httpPassword which you can make anything.
<partnerLinkBinding name="PartnerLink_SPTel_Register">
<property name="wsdlLocation">RegisterServiceRef.wsdl</property>
<property name="httpUsername">dummy</property>
<property name="httpPassword">dummy</property>
</partnerLinkBinding>
and in the BPEL process change the value of httpUsername and httpPassword dynamically to whatever you want.
<copy>
<from variable="httpUsername"/>
<to partnerLink="EventService_Partner" bpelx:property="httpUsername"/>
</copy>
<copy>
<from variable="httpPassword"/>
<to partnerLink="EventService_Partner" bpelx:property="httpPassword"/>
</copy>
This works great if you have to pass different credentials to the same WS depending on who accesses the bpel process.
hope this helps
Sandeep