From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2010-02-05T07:15:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Send a SOAP request to a url that requires basic authenticat

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:30:16AM +0900, Chris Gunnels wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I have scoured the web looking for an answer but can't seem to find one.
> I need to send a SOAP request to a server that requires basic
> authentication. I can create the base64 encoded username and password
> that the server requires, but I can't seem to send that or add that to
> the header as the server requires.
> 
> code i have right now:
> ENDPOINT = "https://asldfjlsf.com"
> request_xml_string = 'xml...'
> stream = SOAP::HTTPStreamHandler.new(SOAP::Property.new)
> 
> header = SOAP::SOAPHeader.new
> header.add("authorization",
> HTTPAuth::Basic.pack_authorization("username", "pass"))
> body_item = SOAP::SOAPElement.new('getResponse', request_xml_string)
> body = SOAP::SOAPBody.new(body_item)
> envelope = SOAP::SOAPEnvelope.new(header, body)
> request_string = SOAP::Processor.marshal(envelope)
> request = SOAP::StreamHandler::ConnectionData.new(request_string)
> 
> resp_data = stream.send(ENDPOINT, request, 'getResponse')
> 
> puts "Got response:"
> puts resp_data.receive_string
> 
> Any help?

I believe you are mixing 2 differen authentication mechanisms. 

1) HTTP Basic Authentication - Done when the server sends an HTTP Header 
   similar to:

        WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="my secure location"

   The response will be in an HTTP Header, something like:

        Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==

2) SOAP Authentication - done via the XML SOAP format, this will 
   probably be donw with a SOAP header inside the SOAP envelope.

It looks to me in your code as if you are sending a SOAP header for
the SOAP request, and you probably want to send an HTTP header instead.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org