Re: SOAP Security: HTTP-Basic authentication

Eugene Prokopiev wrote:

>> Pop up dialog is suitable for me.
> 
> 
> sorry, it's _not_ suitable for me

I am not sure the SOAP API has any way to provide username and password 
for basic authentication but for me here with Firefox 1.0 it works to 
use XMLHttpRequest first to make a HTTP HEAD request sending the 
credentials (the open method has the fourth and fifth argument for that) 
and then to make the SOAP call e.g.


var soapCall = new SOAPCall();
soapCall.transportURI = 'http://example.org/services/service.asmx';
soapCall.encode(...);

var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
httpRequest.open('GET', soapCall.transportURI, false, 'username', 
'password');
httpRequest.send(null);

if (httpRequest.status == 200) {
   var soapResponse = soapCall.invoke();
   ...
}


That way the basic HTTP authentication happens and for the browser 
session Mozilla remembers that so that the SOAP calls then work.


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