Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-01-2009 3:56 PM |

SL appl asks for user name and password. How to pass user name and password to SOAP WebService for custom validation?

I tried code below but got error on line

about missing Headers propery.

Andrus.

MessageHeader header = MessageHeader.CreateHeader(typeof(UserCredentials).Name,

proxy.SaveAssetDocumentCompleted += proxy_AddOrderCompleted;

class UserCredentials

public const string WS_NAMESPACE = "urn:LOBApplicationFramework.Security";

public string Password { get; set; }

Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-01-2009 4:45 PM |

Hi,

check out this article:

http://www.silverlightshow.net/items/Building-a-Silverlight-Line-Of-Business-Application-Part-3.aspx

Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-01-2009 5:57 PM |

Thank you. I tried this code with SOAP Web Service.

In service line 

MessageHeaders messageHeaders = OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders;

Causes NullReferenceException

Any idea how to make this code to work with SOAP web service ?

Andrus.

Re: Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-01-2009 7:04 PM |

The source code of the article works fine for me.

However you can find here a simpler example using custom SOAP headers:

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=silverlightws&DownloadId=3473

Re: Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-02-2009 5:15 AM |

Thank you. 

Have you tried with ASMX Web service?

I'm looking for a way to get message headers from ASMX web service, not from WCF web service.

Code sample you posted uses WCF web service.

Andrus.

Re: Re: Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-02-2009 8:27 AM |

Hi Andrus,

I suggest you to use WCF services instead of "old" asmx, they are more scalable.

Once you have upgraded to WCF, use the last example I've posted, it works very well.

Re: Re: Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-02-2009 1:53 PM |

I'm planning to host web service in MONO. I have'nt found a way to run .svc service from MONO so I'm forced to use asmx which works OK.

I found the following article about retrieving SOAP headers in ASMX web service

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/authforwebservices.aspx

Should I use this method ?

Andrus.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-05-2009 8:26 AM |

So it seems like the best way to deal with this is to have a centralized method for calling web services.  Is that correct?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Adding user name and password to SOAP message header

01-05-2009 9:52 AM |

My goal is to exchange the following info with ASMX service:

1. SQL Server login credentials (user name, password, database etc) 

2. ValidationException and other exception message texts.

I think that best way is not use message headers at all.

So I created special type

class MessageHeader {

public string User, Class, ExceptionText;

...

}

and pass this as  ref parameter to every web method call

List<Customer> GetCustomers( ref header, ... )

Ugly, but seems to be only solution.

Andrus.