How do I consume a web service protected with HTTP basic authentication using the CXF framework?

Question

I tried to get it to work using the CXF User Guide, but I\'ve had no luck.

I\'m trying to call the web service using java code.

Answer 1

You can provide your own Authenticator. That way it will work if the WDSL itself is protected by basic HTTP authentication.

@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation = "https://laka/sito?wsdl")
static XxxService service;

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
        @Override
        protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication("user", "password".toCharArray());
        }
    });

    service = new XxxService();
    Xxx port = service.getXxxPort();

    // invoke webservice and print response
    XxxResponse resp = port.foo();
    System.out.println(resp.toString());

}

Answer 2

There is a much better way:

when generating Java from WSDL, add option "-exsh true" :

wsdl2java -exsh true -p edu.sharif.ce http://wsdl.ir/WebServices/WebService.asmx?WSDL

and add UserCredential when using:

UserCredentials user = new UserCredentials();
user.setUserid("user");
user.setPassword("pass");

ResearchWebService_Service service = new ResearchWebService_Service();
ResearchWebService port = service.getResearchWebService();
port.addNewProject(newProject, user);

Answer 3

This is covered by the JAX-WS Specification. Basically, set the username/password as properties on the request context:

((BindingProvider)proxy).getRequestContext().put(
    BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, "joe");
((BindingProvider)proxy).getRequestContext().put(
    BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, "pswd");

The runtime puts them into the HTTP header.