Publishing a WSDL service that requires username/password (HTTP BasicAuth) to retrieve the WSDL

Sun, 09/28/2008 - 18:25
john.crupi
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Some WSDLs sit behind the firewall and require username/password to retrieve it. Presto does not yet support entering a username/password when publishing a service.

Therefore, the easiest way to accomplish this is to manually login, get the WSDL and download it locally. Then you can make a subdirectory in the Tomcat webapps directory, say webapps/ACME and copy the wsdl there.

Say you named it acme.wsdl. To publish it in Presto, you would use http://localhost:8080/ACME/acme.wsdl

Presto doesn't attempt to call the service at publication time, so even if the soap:address is unreachable, you'll be ok.

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Thu, 10/02/2008 - 20:01
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Hi

Is there a plan to bring this functionality within Presto ? Most of the existing services within enterprise tend to have some kind of authentication requirement.

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Makesh

Wed, 10/29/2008 - 14:05
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We have WSDL's in Systinet. We can therefore access these.

The challenge I have is that the web service calls themselves appear to use basic authentication.

Is it possible to write a macro that can wrap the basic authentication userid and password around a WSDL call.

I am very new to writing mashups!

 

 Mark Scrimshire

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 11:54
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Karthic Thope
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Yes, definitely. The next release will have support for accessing secure WSDLs. Initial plans are to support HTTP basic auth and NTLM.