Comments on: HTTP Basic Authentication with Apache CXF Revisited

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:38:04 +0000

What is the context of the following code?

BindingProvider port = service.getPort(clas)
port.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, “user”);
port.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, “password”);

I haven’t been able to find where to put this.
What is “service” and what is “clas”?

Thanks!

By: Nuno

Nuno — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:42:41 +0000

There is a minor bug in this code, you should replace “Content-Length” with “Content-length”, otherwise you will get the error above reported by Uri.

By: Dennis Vredeveld

Dennis Vredeveld — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:35:35 +0000

Could it be that the exception above is being caused by the client that tries to parse the response as an SOAP response. Clearly, an “HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized…” will not be parsed as XML.

By: Matt Mendrala

Matt Mendrala — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:55:02 +0000

You will get an exception if the credentials are not base64 encoded as well. I wonder if that’s what you are seeing.

By: Uri

Uri — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:16:19 +0000

Hello, Everything works OK, if the supplied username/password are correct. But when they are incorrect, I get


org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.SoapFault: Error reading XMLStreamReader.
.....
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxEOFException: Unexpected EOF in prolog                                                                       
 at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [1,0]                                                                                                        
        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwUnexpectedEOF(StreamScanner.java:686)                                                          
        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.handleEOF(BasicStreamReader.java:2134)                                                          
        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromProlog(BasicStreamReader.java:2040)                                                     
        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1069)                                                               
        at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextTag(BasicStreamReader.java:1095)                                                            
        at org.apache.cxf.binding.soap.interceptor.ReadHeadersInterceptor.handleMessage(ReadHeadersInterceptor.java:85)

By: chris

chris — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:20:28 +0000

I do not actually call this service using CXF. Another application consumes this web service. I do make use of it in unit tests though. Here is a snippet of what you need to do basic authentication with CXF on the client side:

BindingProvider port = service.getPort(clas)
port.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, “user”)
port.getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, “password”)

By: anand

anand — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:08:55 +0000

Hello Chris,
The interceptor works like a breeze.
Thanks for that..
I was wondering if you had a sample client code to share that calls the web service interceptor with the required parameters..?

Thanks,