Setting Basic Authentication for Web Service in WLS 6.1

Question

Hi,
I am trying to set-up a Basic Username/Password authentication for a Web Service
that is hosted in WLS 6.1.
How do I go about doing that? Also once I get the username and password, how do
I pass that info
to the SOAP servlet to do the authentication? Can you give me some pointers on
this?
Thanks
Madhu

Answer 1

How do you want to do it? Through use of client.jar for the service or
directly? Here is how I do it directly:
String auth = "guest", pwd = "guest";
URL url = new URL("http://localhost:7001");
URL cmdURL = new URL(url.toString()+"/systemtest/TestWebService");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) cmdURL.openConnection();
String encAuth =
new BASE64Encoder().encode((auth + ":" + pwd).getBytes());
// BASE64Encode distributes long strings on multiple
// lines; we don't like that, no siree
int it = 0;
while ((it = encAuth.indexOf('\n')) != -1
|| (it = encAuth.indexOf('\r')) != -1) {
encAuth = encAuth.substring(0, it) +
encAuth.substring(it + 1);
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encAuth);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml");
conn.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", cmdURL.toString());
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setUseCaches(false);
OutputStream oStr = conn.getOutputStream();
String cmd =
"<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n"
+ "<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmls"
     + "oap.org/soap/envelope/\"><soap:Body>"
+ "<ping><arg0>false</arg0></ping>"
+ "</soap:Body></soap:Envelope>";
oStr.write(cmd.getBytes());
oStr.close();
InputStream iStr = conn.getInputStream();
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
while (true) {
int size = iStr.read(buffer);
if (size == -1)
break;
System.out.println(new String(buffer, 0, size));
ThorAAge