Set the client for basic authentication: specifying the method

Set the client for basic authentication: specifying the method

Basic authentication (BasicAuth) refers to the user ID and password of a valid user in the registry of the target server. BasicAuth information can be collected in many ways, including through an admin console prompt, a standard in (Stdin) prompt, or specified in the bindings that prevents user interaction.
There is an important distinction between V 5.x and V6.0.x and later applications. The information in this article supports V5.x applications only that are used with WAS V6.0.x and later. The information does not apply to V 6.0.x and later applications.

See on BasicAuth authentication, see: BasicAuth authentication method.
WAS supports nonce (randomly generated token) with BasicAuth authentication.
See Nonce.
Complete the following steps to specify BasicAuth as the authentication method:

Launch an assembly tool. See more information on the assembly tools.
Switch to the Java EE perspective. Click Window > Open Perspective > J2EE.
Click Application Client Projects > application_name > appClientModule > META-INF.
Right-click the application-client.xml file, select Open with > Deployment descriptor editor.
Click the WS Extensions tab, which is located at the bottom of the deployment descriptor editor within the assembly tool.
Expand the Request sender configuration > Login configuration section. The only valid login configuration choices for a pure client are BasicAuth and Signature.
Select BasicAuth to authenticate the client using a user ID and a password. This user ID and password must be specified in the target user registry. The other choice, Signature, attempts to authenticate the client using the certificate used to digitally sign the message.

Next steps

See on getting started with the Web services client editor within the assembly tool, see either of the following topics:

Set the client security bindings using an assembly tool
Set the security bindings on a server acting as a client

After specify the BasicAuth authentication method, specify how to collect the authentication information. See Set the client for basic authentication: collecting the authentication information.

BasicAuth authentication method

Related concepts

Assembly tools
Nonce, a randomly generated token

Related tasks

Set the client for basic authentication: collecting the authentication information
Set the client for identity assertion: specifying the method
Set the client for identity assertion: collecting the authentication method
Set the client for LTPA token authentication: specifying LTPA token authentication
Set the client for LTPA token authentication: collecting the authentication method information
Set the client security bindings using an assembly tool
Set the security bindings on a server acting as a client
Set nonce for the application level
Set nonce for the server level
Set nonce for the cell level
Secure Web services for V5.x applications using basic authentication