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July 13, 2010
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Web Service Authentication in Coldfusion

  • July 13, 2010
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Hi
I am trying to perform Web Service Authentication in Coldfusion. The webservice is written using a CFC.
It is a normal CFC, and I am generating the Web Service URL as test.cfc?WSDL
Is there a way that I can authenticate a web service method using SOAP headers ?

There is a code mechanism in ASP.NET, where we can beautify the web service with codes  that will ask for a username and password for

accessing a method of a web service.

I am testing the web services using SOAP Sonar, it is a very good tool. When testing, if there is an authentication mechanism in a web service,

then it will prompt you to enter the user name and password. At the moment, I have included two fields (username and password) for each

method to do the custom authentication against a login info stored in Application.cfm.

I found a way using WSSJ4 from Apache, but it looked too complex and not very straight forward to acheive it.

Please if anyone have found a solution, please let me know.

Thank you in advance..

Josh Thomas

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    Dileep_NR
    Dileep_NR
    Inspiring
    July 13, 2010

    Please try the follwoing code set

    /*REMOTE METHOD

    soaptest.cfc

    */

    <cffunction name="addNumbers" access="remote" returntype="test" output="false">

            <cfargument name="firstNumber" type="string" required="true"/>

            <cfargument name="secondNumber" type="string" required="true"/>

            <cfset retunVal="NO">

            <cfset username=0>

            <cfif isSOAPRequest()>

                    <cfset retunVal="YES">

                    <cfset username = getSOAPRequestHeader("http://localhost/testsoap/", "setInit")>

                     <cfset retunVal= arguments.firstNumber + arguments.secondNumber & username>

            </cfif>

            <cfreturn retunVal />

        </cffunction>

    /**

    /*calling remote method

    index.cfm

    */
    <cfsavecontent variable="soap">
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <soapenv:Envelope
            xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
            xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
            xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
            xmlns="http://localhost/testsoap/">
            <soapenv:Header>
            <setInit>1</setInit>
            </soapenv:Header>
            <soapenv:Body>
            <addNumbers soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" >
            <firstNumber>1000</firstNumber>
            <secondNumber>10</secondNumber>
            </addNumbers>
            </soapenv:Body>
            </soapenv:Envelope>
    </cfsavecontent>


    <!--- Note that there's no ?wsdl appendage to the url --->
    <cfhttp url="http://localhost/testsoap/soaptest.cfc" method="post">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="content-type" value="text/xml">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="content-length" value="#len(soap)#">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="charset" value="utf-8">
        <cfhttpparam type="xml" name="message" value="#trim(soap)#">
    </cfhttp>

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