Java Web Service client basic authentication

Question

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

<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">
  <soapenv:Body>
    <q0:listServiceScripts/>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

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();

Answer 1

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();

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

for Axis2 client this may be helpful

...
serviceStub = new TestBeanServiceStub("<WEB SERVICE URL>"); // Set your value
HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator basicAuthenticator = new HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator();
List<String> authSchemes = new ArrayList<String>();
authSchemes.add(Authenticator.BASIC);
basicAuthenticator.setAuthSchemes(authSchemes); 
basicAuthenticator.setUsername("<UserName>"); // Set your value
basicAuthenticator.setPassword("<Password>"); // 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");
...

Answer 4

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);

Answer 5

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<String, List<String>> credentials = new HashMap<String,List<String>>();

 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.

Answer 6

This worked for me:

 BindingProvider bp = (BindingProvider) port;
 Map<String, Object> map = bp.getRequestContext();
 map.put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, "aspbbo");
 map.put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, "9FFFN6P");

Answer 7

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 .

Answer 8

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<String, Object> reqContext = ((BindingProvider) 
         wsPort).getRequestContext();
    reqContext.put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, "username");
        reqContext.put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, "password");

Answer 9

The easiest option to get this working is to include Username and Password under of request. See sample below.

<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">
    <soapenv:Header>
        <typ:requestHeader>
            <typ:timestamp>?</typ:timestamp>
            <typ:sourceSystemId>TEST</typ:sourceSystemId>
            <!--Optional: -->
            <typ:sourceSystemUserId>1</typ:sourceSystemUserId>
            <typ:sourceServerId>1</typ:sourceServerId>
            <typ:trackingId>HYD-12345</typ:trackingId>
        </typ:requestHeader>

        <wsse:Security soapenv:mustUnderstand="1"
            xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd">
            <wsse:UsernameToken wsu:Id="UsernameToken-emmprepaid"
                xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd">
                <wsse:Username>your-username</wsse:Username>
                <wsse:Password
                    Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">your-password</wsse:Password>
            </wsse:UsernameToken>
        </wsse:Security>
    </soapenv:Header>
    <soapenv:Body>
        <ser:getLocation>
            <!--Optional: -->
            <ser:GetLocation>
                <typ1:locationID>HYD-GoldenTulipsEstates</typ1:locationID>
            </ser:GetLocation>
        </ser:getLocation>
    </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Answer 10

For me below code works

        Map<String, Object> requestContext = ((BindingProvider)port).getRequestContext();
        Map<String, List<String>> requestHeaders = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();
        String authString = "<Userid>" + ":" + "<Pwd>";
        String authorization =  Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(authString.getBytes());
        requestHeaders.put("Authorization", Collections.singletonList("Basic " + authorization));
        requestContext.put(MessageContext.HTTP_REQUEST_HEADERS, requestHeaders);