Basic authentication in SOAP

mrguy123 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks,
I am trying to retrieve a web page that uses basic authentication with the SOAP::Lite module. I have been able to retrive this page with the LWP::UserAgent, using this code to take care of authentication:

 $header->authorization_basic($uname,$passwd);
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$header is the name of the request header, which is then sent like this (with more info for the http transaction):

POST http://newscentre.aap.com.au/SRW/SRW.asmx
Authorization: Basic dmljcGFybDJcbWV0YWxpYjo1bmV3c2NlbnRyZTM=
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. I now want to do the same using SOAP::Lite. I read in the module documentation that SOAP::Lite supports basic authentication, but didn't find any other info about how to send the username and password. I can send info in the SOAP header, but I don't know how it can be done in the request header. Does anybody have any ideas?
Thanks, Guy
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Re: Basic authentication in SOAP by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 20, 2006 at 12:46 UTC
You should see the section entitled "HTTP BASIC AUTHENTICATION " in the SOAP::Transport documentation. Update: fixed the link `[module://SOAP::Transport]` seems to be broken. /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Basic authentication in SOAP by shonorio (Hermit) on Jul 20, 2006 at 12:54 UTC
Your link is broken, maybe this is correct SOAP::Transport. Solli Moreira Honorio Sao Paulo - Brazil	[reply]
Re^2: Basic authentication in SOAP by Hofmator (Curate) on Jul 20, 2006 at 12:58 UTC
Your link is leading to 'Not found' for me ... but this one here should point directly at the information you mention. -- Hofmator	[reply]
Re^2: Basic authentication in SOAP by mrguy123 (Hermit) on Jul 20, 2006 at 12:55 UTC
Thanks for your (very) quick reply. The section you referred me to contains this info `BEGIN { sub SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::get_basic_credentials { return 'username' => 'password'; } }` [download] I still don't underdstand from this code how I can send the username and password as part of the SOAP request.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Basic authentication in SOAP by jhourcle (Prior) on Jul 20, 2006 at 13:01 UTC
Where it says 'username', put in the username to login as. Replace 'password' with the appropriate password for the username you're trying to use. SOAP::Transport will call this function to get the username and password to log in as, so when you override the function, it'll log in with what you tell it.	[reply]
Re^4: Basic authentication in SOAP by mrguy123 (Hermit) on Jul 20, 2006 at 13:16 UTC
Re^5: Basic authentication in SOAP by jhourcle (Prior) on Jul 20, 2006 at 14:26 UTC
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Re^4: Basic authentication in SOAP by mrguy123 (Hermit) on Jul 20, 2006 at 13:48 UTC
Re^3: Basic authentication in SOAP by Hofmator (Curate) on Jul 20, 2006 at 13:02 UTC
You just have to include this code snippet (with username and password replaced of course) in your code using SOAP::Lite. That should do the trick according to the docs. Update: Ahrg, you guys are too quick for me :-) ... sorry for the double posts ... -- Hofmator	[reply]