Consume Sharepoint Office 365 web services from Java application

Question

I am trying to consume Sharepoint Online Office 365 out-of-the-box web services ( Lists.asmx ) from Java application (from the moment SoapUI 5.3 )

I tried with all 3 types of authentications ( Basic , NTLM , SPNEGO/Kerberos ) but always get 403 FORBIDDEN error

If I add X-FORMS_BASED_AUTH_ACCEPTED=f header, I get 401 UNAUTHORIZED or empty return stream depending on authentication type

I've checked SharePoint 2010: consuming web services from NetSuite - 403 Forbidden error and tried to used Authentication.asmx before but always get PasswordNotMatch error, although I am sure password is correct

I also checked Authenticating Office 365 SharePoint Online OOTB services , but no luck

All tests are done in both Windows and Ubuntu environments to avoid NTLM fails when consuming SharePoint web service from Java?

The user I use to connect to Sharepoint Online is OK. It has admin rights and I can connect through a browser without any problem.

What do I miss?

Answer 1

Only answer can be given with what you tell us is : You have to look what your service wsdl asking for example: http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx service located here have contract(wsdl) like that: http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?wsdl

Which is don't have any ws-security policy so no authentication required but probably your service wsdl going to have some security requirments and you have to fulfill them.

Answer 2

This happened to me trying to make a request to SharePoint web services using Postman. I was also receiving the forbidden error while I had tested the credentials another way and they were working fine. It turned out it was another parameter that needed to be set but was showing as forbidden.