SOAP adapter - unauthorized problem

Question

Hi all,
Our third party receive an unauthorized (401) message back when they send a soap request via http protocol to our XI server.
In the soap request, the following location adapted.
http://integration.test.com/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=P_Cop:BSrv_EDS:CC_Cop_SOAP_Sender_buf&version=3.0&Sender.Party=http://sap.com/xi/XI:XIParty:P_COP&Sender.Service=BSrv_EDS&Interface=http://test.com/interfacing/lp/eds/cop^MI_O_vatCOP_BUF
Changing the location into did not work also
http://XIusername:XIpassword@*integration.test.com/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=P_Cop:BSrv_EDS:CC_Cop_SOAP_Sender_buf&version=3.0&Sender.Party=http://sap.com/xi/XI:XIParty:P_COP&Sender.Service=BSrv_EDS&Interface=http://test.com/interfacing/lp/eds/cop^MI_O_vatCOP_BUF
Using a the Oxygen web service testing tool works fine (after enter a valid XIusername and XIpassword).
Using the SOAP UI web service testing tool does not work (after enter a valid XIusername and XIpassword).
Are there any other options or ideas?
Please help

Answer 1

Hi E.J.C. Theuns !
        Maybe the problem is being caused because the way that the user and password is being sent to XI WebService.
        I have used to send user and password joined to the url in the format that you specified in your first message but, this worked in Java, not in PHP.
        When I used PHP to call a RFC function as a WebService, I do it using NuSOAP package, and using NuSOAP, the code was something like this:
require_once('nusoap.php');
$client=new soapclient('http://<server>:<port/sap/bc/soap/rfc');
$client->setCredentials('<user>','<password>');
$msg='<BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST xmlns="urn:sap-com:document:sap:rfc:functions">
   <MAXROWS>200</MAXROWS>
   <MATNRSELECTION>
    <item>
     <SIGN xsi:type="xsd:string">I</SIGN>
     <OPTION xsi:type="xsd:string">GE</OPTION>
     <MATNR_LOW xsi:type="xsd:string">000000000000000001</MATNR_LOW>
    </item>
   </MATNRSELECTION>
   <MATNRLIST></MATNRLIST>
   <MATERIALSHORTDESCSEL></MATERIALSHORTDESCSEL>
  </BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST>';
$msg1 = $client->serializeEnvelope($msg);
echo "Makes the call !";
$client->send($msg1,"BAPI_MATERIAL_GETLIST");
echo '<br><br><br><br><b>Request:</b><xmp>'.$client->request.'</xmp>';
$material = $client->response["MATNRLIST"];
$item = $material["item"];
echo '<b>Test:</b> <xmp>'.$item["MATERIAL"].'</xmp>';
echo '<b>Response:</b> <xmp>'.$client->response.'</xmp>';
echo '<b>Debug log:</b> <pre>'.$client->debug_str.'</pre>';
echo "End of execution";
        How you can see in this sample code, the user and password are sent using this code:
$client->setCredentials('<user>','<password>');
        Where $client is a instance of the NuSOAP soapclient class.
        This code always work very well, I don´t know if your third part system is using NuSOAP too but, case not, tell the php programmer to check if the library that is being used doesn´t have some class/method like NuSOAP, to set credentials.
        Thank you for your attention, and I hope this info helps you !
        Best regards,
        Wilson