SOAP::Lite authentication

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

I call a web service by means of a SOAP::Lite client.
The service requires authentication.
Defining the usr/password in the proxy parameter like this works:

'proxy' =>('http://user:password@url/web/service')
The docs say I can rewrite the get_basic_credentials method like this:

sub SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::get_basic_credentials {
  return 'user' => 'password';
}
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But this doesn't work, there's no http header authentication.

I konw the method is defined in LWP::UserAgent module but have no idea where it's called from SOAP::Lite.

Any suggestions?

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Re: SOAP::Lite authentication by roman (Monk) on Dec 19, 2007 at 17:02 UTC
I am not an authentication expert, but are you sure you use basic authentication? In my environment both methods (user info in URI, get_basic_credentials) work for an Apache with basic authentication, but only the first one succeed with IIS6.0 using NTLM authentication.	[reply]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite authentication by rahed (Scribe) on Dec 19, 2007 at 20:11 UTC
The service is implemented with a WebLogic server. I think it's basic authentication.	[reply]
Re: SOAP::Lite authentication by rahed (Scribe) on Dec 27, 2007 at 15:08 UTC
I wanted to avoid defining credentials in a proxy parameter and so investigated further. I think the server rejects the connection and doesn't ask for the credentials again. The get_basic_credentials method is probably called as later as in this moment. So I added an Authorization header this way: `$authoriz = 'Basic '.encode_base64('user:passwd'); $soap->transport->http_request->headers->push_header('Authorization'=> +$authoriz);` [download] encode_base64 is a function from MIME::Base64 module. And this way it's ok now.	[reply] [d/l]