Java Web Service client basic authentication

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I have created a JAX-WS Web Service on top of Glassfish which requires basic HTTP authentication   Now I want to create a standalone java application client for that Web Service but I don t have a clue of how to pass the username and password   It works with Eclipse s Web Service explorer  and examining the wire I found this   POST  SnaProvisioning SnaProvisioningV1 0 HTTP 1 1 Host  localhost 8080 Content-Type  text xml  charset utf-8 Content-Length  311 Accept  application soap xml  application dime  multipart related  text   User-Agent  IBM Web Services Explorer Cache-Control  no-cache Pragma  no-cache SOAPAction     Authorization  Basic Z2VybWFuOmdlcm1hbg   Connection  close   lt soapenv Envelope xmlns soapenv  http   schemas xmlsoap org soap envelope   xmlns q0  http   ngin ericsson com sna types v1 0  xmlns xsd  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema  xmlns xsi  http   www w3 org 2001 XMLSchema-instance  gt     lt soapenv Body gt       lt q0 listServiceScripts  gt     lt  soapenv Body gt   lt  soapenv Envelope gt    How do I pass the username and password in this  Authorization  header using java code  Is it hashed or something like that  What is the algorithm   Without security involved I have a working standalone java client   SnaProvisioning myPort   new SnaProvisioning Service   getSnaProvisioningV10Port    myPort listServiceScripts

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This worked for me    BindingProvider bp    BindingProvider  port   Map lt String  Object gt  map   bp getRequestContext     map put BindingProvider USERNAME PROPERTY   aspbbo     map put BindingProvider PASSWORD PROPERTY   9FFFN6P

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It turned out that there s a simple  standard way to achieve what I wanted   import java net Authenticator  import java net PasswordAuthentication   Authenticator myAuth   new Authenticator           Override     protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication                 return new PasswordAuthentication  german    german  toCharArray               Authenticator setDefault myAuth     No custom  sun  classes or external dependencies  and no manually encode anything   I m aware that BASIC security is not  well  secure  but we are also using HTTPS

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Some context additional about basic authentication  it consists in a header which contains the key value pair   Authorization  Basic Z2VybWFuOmdlcm1hbg    where  Authorization  is the headers key  and the headers value has a string    Basic  word plus blank space  concatenated to  Z2VybWFuOmdlcm1hbg     which are the user and password in base 64 joint by double dot  String name    username   String password    secret   String authString   name         password  String authStringEnc   new BASE64Encoder   encode authString getBytes         objectXXX header  Authorization    Basic     authStringEnc

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To make your life simpler  you may want to consider using JAX-WS framework such as Apache CXF or Apache Axis2   Here is the link that describes how to setup WS-Security for Apache CXF -  http   cxf apache org docs ws-security html  EDIT By the way  the Authorization field just uses simple Base64 encoding  According to this   http   www motobit com util base64-decoder-encoder asp    the decoded value is german german

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The JAX-WS way for basic authentication is  Service s   new Service    Port port   s getPort     BindingProvider prov    BindingProvider port  prov getRequestContext   put BindingProvider USERNAME PROPERTY   myusername    prov getRequestContext   put BindingProvider PASSWORD PROPERTY   mypassword     port call

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for Axis2 client this may be helpful      serviceStub   new TestBeanServiceStub   lt WEB SERVICE URL gt        Set your value HttpTransportProperties Authenticator basicAuthenticator   new HttpTransportProperties Authenticator    List lt String gt  authSchemes   new ArrayList lt String gt     authSchemes add Authenticator BASIC   basicAuthenticator setAuthSchemes authSchemes    basicAuthenticator setUsername   lt UserName gt        Set your value basicAuthenticator setPassword   lt Password gt        Set your value basicAuthenticator setPreemptiveAuthentication true   serviceStub  getServiceClient   getOptions   setProperty org apache axis2 transport http HTTPConstants AUTHENTICATE  basicAuthenticator   serviceStub  getServiceClient   getOptions   setProperty org apache axis2 transport http HTTPConstants CHUNKED   false

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The easiest option to get this working is to include Username and Password under  of request  See sample below     lt soapenv Envelope xmlns soapenv  http   schemas xmlsoap org soap envelope       xmlns typ  http   xml demo com types  xmlns ser  http   xml demo com location services      xmlns typ1  http   xml demo com location types  gt       lt soapenv Header gt           lt typ requestHeader gt               lt typ timestamp gt   lt  typ timestamp gt               lt typ sourceSystemId gt TEST lt  typ sourceSystemId gt               lt  --Optional  -- gt               lt typ sourceSystemUserId gt 1 lt  typ sourceSystemUserId gt               lt typ sourceServerId gt 1 lt  typ sourceServerId gt               lt typ trackingId gt HYD-12345 lt  typ trackingId gt           lt  typ requestHeader gt            lt wsse Security soapenv mustUnderstand  1              xmlns wsse  http   docs oasis-open org wss 2004 01 oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1 0 xsd  gt               lt wsse UsernameToken wsu Id  UsernameToken-emmprepaid                  xmlns wsu  http   docs oasis-open org wss 2004 01 oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1 0 xsd  gt                   lt wsse Username gt your-username lt  wsse Username gt                   lt wsse Password                     Type  http   docs oasis-open org wss 2004 01 oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1 0 PasswordText  gt your-password lt  wsse Password gt               lt  wsse UsernameToken gt           lt  wsse Security gt       lt  soapenv Header gt       lt soapenv Body gt           lt ser getLocation gt               lt  --Optional  -- gt               lt ser GetLocation gt                   lt typ1 locationID gt HYD-GoldenTulipsEstates lt  typ1 locationID gt               lt  ser GetLocation gt           lt  ser getLocation gt       lt  soapenv Body gt   lt  soapenv Envelope gt

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If you use JAX-WS  the following works for me         Get Web service Port     WSTestService wsService   new WSTestService        WSTest wsPort   wsService getWSTestPort            Add username and password for Basic Authentication     Map lt String  Object gt  reqContext     BindingProvider            wsPort  getRequestContext        reqContext put BindingProvider USERNAME PROPERTY   username            reqContext put BindingProvider PASSWORD PROPERTY   password

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If you are using a JAX-WS implementation for your client  such as Metro Web Services  the following code shows how to pass username and password in the HTTP headers    MyService port   new MyService     MyServiceWS service   port getMyServicePort      Map lt String  List lt String gt  gt  credentials   new HashMap lt String List lt String gt  gt       credentials put  username   Collections singletonList  username      credentials put  password   Collections singletonList  password         BindingProvider service  getRequestContext   put MessageContext HTTP REQUEST HEADERS  credentials     Then subsequent calls to the service will be authenticated  Beware that the password is only encoded using Base64  so I encourage you to use other additional mechanism like client certificates to increase security

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