Passing credentials to external web service

arnhemb

Hi All,

I am calling a web service from within Nav that requires authentication (username and password) to access. How does one send the username and password with the request in order to prevent the authentication dialog popping up to the user.

I call like web service like this, setting AuthUser and AuthPassword on the header, but this seems to make no difference:

CREATE(autXmlHttp);
autXmlHttp.open('POST', txtServiceURI, 0);
autXmlHttp.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'text/xml');
autXmlHttp.setRequestHeader('AuthUser', txtUserName);
autXmlHttp.setRequestHeader('AuthPassword', txtPassword);
autXmlHttp.setRequestHeader('SOAPAction', txtServiceAction);
autXmlHttp.setRequestHeader('Timeout', FORMAT(intTimeout));
autXmlHttp.send(autXmlDoc);

Any ideas?

kine

Depends on if the the user name and password should be same as the user under which it is called or not. If yes, you can try to add the target URL into Extranet URLs list in Internet Explorer to allow automatic credential transfer, but all depends on the infrastructure and authentication type of the target webservice.

arnhemb

Thanks for the reply, but in this case the username and password is the same irrespective of logged in user.

EDIT: and excuse the late response. Did not realise I was not subscribed to the post.

kine

If you call webservices, which are using Windows authentication, I think that the credentials (or ticket) will be passed automatically, if the target URL is in Intranet zone in Internet Explorer.

arnhemb

Still any idea of how to pass credentials explicitly then?

kine

Look at all parameters of the Open function you are using... ;-)

arnhemb

Ah, right there all the time :whistle: . I was so convinced the answer lay in the header.

Just for those of you who enjoy NAV's lack of intellisense:
autXmlHttp.open(BSTR bstrMethod, BSTR bstrURL[, VARIANT varAsync][, VARIANT bstrUser][, VARIANT bstrPassword]

Thanks a lot, appreciate it.

kine

You are welcome!