SOAPClient over SSL with basic authentication

[earniedyke]

Greetings all,

Is it possible to use the SOAPClient action with a web service that utilizes basic authentication over SSL? I have a requirement to do this but I can find no documentation that will help me.

Earnie!

[earniedyke]

As an update. I have setup the following action:

<action name="GetWeather" class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.soap.SOAPClient">
 <property name="wsdl" value="https://a.b.com/test/testService?WSDL"/>
 <property name="operation" value="doTheTest"/>
</action>

And I am getting this error in the log:

2007-06-26 08:57:16,187 INFO [STDOUT] 08:57:16,187 ERROR [HttpClientSupport$Helper] Failed to initialize SSL settings; java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/httpclient/contrib/ssl/EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory

Is the EasySSLProtoclSocketFactory not included in ESB?

Earnie!

[earniedyke]

OK, I can't believe I am the first person on the planet to try web services over SSL with Basic authentication via ESB 4.2MR2. Can someone please throw me a bone at least. :-)
Earnie!

[kurtstam]

Hey Dr Evil. I think you are ;). I can't find the jar. Can you add it and see what happens?

--Number 1.

[earniedyke]

To which jar are you referring?

Earnie!

[omatzura]

Hi guys,

you need to add the commons-ssl jar, download from http://juliusdavies.ca/commons-ssl/download.html

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

[earniedyke]

I downloaded this and put it in the deploy\lib directory. Is that the correct place for it? Now I am getting:

14:09:36,812 INFO [STDOUT] 14:09:36,796 INFO [HttpClientSupport$Helper] Initia
lizing SSL
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] Exception in thread "Thread-21"
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.
open(HttpConnection.java:706)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHt
tpConnectionManager$HttpConnectionAdapter.open(MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManage
r.java:1321)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirec
tor.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:386)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirec
tor.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:170)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.exec
uteMethod(HttpClient.java:396)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.wsdl.Url
WsdlLoader$LoaderWorker.construct(UrlWsdlLoader.java:147)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at com.eviware.soapui.support.swing.SwingWorker$
2.run(SwingWorker.java:111)
14:09:36,968 ERROR [STDERR] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Earnie!

[omatzura]

Hi,

hmm.. I'm not sure.. could you try to put it in your esb-deployment-ear/package? It should probably be at the same place where the soapui jars are.. (where are they?)

/Ole
eviware.com

[earniedyke]

We are making progress my friend!!!!

I added commons-ssl to the soap-client.sar and restarted everything. Now I am getting the following error which I presume is related to part 2 of my original question: how do I send authorization credentials.

Earnie!

14:28:16,203 INFO [STDOUT] 14:28:16,203 INFO [WsdlLoader] 1.2.3.4:443 re
quires authentication with the realm 'weblogic'
14:28:16,218 INFO [STDOUT] 14:28:16,218 ERROR [HttpMethodDirector]
java.lang.NullPointerException
 at com.eviware.x.form.XFormFactory.createDialogBuilder(XFormFactory.java
:31)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.wsdl.UrlWsdlLoader$WsdlCredentia
lsProvider.buildBasicDialog(UrlWsdlLoader.java:253)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.wsdl.UrlWsdlLoader$WsdlCredentia
lsProvider.getCredentials(UrlWsdlLoader.java:223)
 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.promptForCredentials
(HttpMethodDirector.java:864)
 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.processWWWAuthChalle
nge(HttpMethodDirector.java:727)
 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.processAuthenticatio
nResponse(HttpMethodDirector.java:663)
 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMe
thodDirector.java:192)
 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.jav
a:396)
 at com.eviware.soapui.impl.wsdl.support.wsdl.UrlWsdlLoader$LoaderWorker.
construct(UrlWsdlLoader.java:147)
 at com.eviware.soapui.support.swing.SwingWorker$2.run(SwingWorker.java:1
11)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

IP address in the message is not the real one. Can't share that now can I?!?

[omatzura]

Hi!

Progress is good! Actually at this point I'm not sure how the jboss-folks have wrapped to soapUI API.. (which has support for setting credentials..), are you running from SVN or some distribution?

regards

/Ole
eviware.com

[earniedyke]

I am running from the SVN as of yesterday. I have been trying to figure out the auth stuff in soapui as well since the client will allow me to connect with a user/password. JBoss has this SoapClient that I am looking at now but it uses HTTPClient from commons-httpclient. Not sure where this and soapui cross paths. Will let you know what I find out.

Thanks for the help today!!!

Earnie!

[omatzura]

Hi!

In soapUI you can just set username/password/domain properties, maybe you will need to turn on preemptive authentication in the preferences/http tab. All this can of course be set from the soapUI API as well, but I don't know how SOAPClient encapsulates it and what properties/settings from soapUI it exposes.. if you need and help digging, let me know :-)

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

[marklittle]

If you manage to get this sorted, create a JIRA task to cover anything that needs doing and we'll look at including it in the release. Thanks.

[tfennelly]

"omatzura" wrote:
Hi!

In soapUI you can just set username/password/domain properties, maybe you will need to turn on preemptive authentication in the preferences/http tab. All this can of course be set from the soapUI API as well, but I don't know how SOAPClient encapsulates it and what properties/settings from soapUI it exposes.. if you need and help digging, let me know :-)

regards,

/Ole
eviware.com

Actually guys, the SOAPClient ESB action depends on soapUI to generate the SOAP request template from the specified webservice endpoint. It doesn't actually post the HTTP request, SOAPClient does this itself.

Let me look into this and I'll come back.

[tfennelly]

Sorry about the delay on this guys, I still haven't gotten around to sorting it out. After having a quick look it's obvious that I kick wide on adding basic authentication capability to SOAPClient. There's a sample of how to do it there in the HttpClient samples and it doesn't look overly difficult. The action config would obviously need to be updated to accommodate the auth parameters.

If anyone is interested in making the mods to SOAPClient, please feel free. Otherwise I'll get to it ASAP.

BTW, I did add a JIRA on this earlier today: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBESB-650