Comments on: How-to: Calling Web Services Using Basic Authentication

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:43:54 +0000

In reply to Maheshwar. Very helpful, solved my issue. Thank you very much

By: Erkan

Erkan — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:52:56 +0000

Thank you so much. I’m searching this logic. Wonderful text. Thanks again…

By: jagdish

jagdish — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 06:12:32 +0000

thanks man,old but really helpful for me.thanks a lot

By: Kaustuv Jana

Kaustuv Jana — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:21:39 +0000

Thanks a lot Mark. I have spent couple of days to find out a solution. But this great post saved my more time.

By: Sebastian Quintero

Sebastian Quintero — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:15:55 +0000

Thank you very much!!!
Save my life, I spend days to investigate that problem!

By: torice

torice — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 16:39:05 +0000

ohhh yea, thaks man

By: Bharat Garg

Bharat Garg — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 10:17:58 +0000

Can you please let me know how can i implement ws addressing in it.

By: Krish

Krish — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:44:26 +0000

Thanks a lot Mark for this wonderful post. first time the code didn’t work. But after going through all comments I figured it out that a space is required after the Basic word. Once I made that change it worked. Will it be possible for you to update the code sample to include that extra space required. This will help others also and saves time who just copy and paste your code.

Thanks again.

By: Shimon Cohen

Shimon Cohen — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 14:13:58 +0000

hi,
This is great.
can you please let me know how to add ws-Security Header?

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#THubUser
#Password1234
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By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 16:56:52 +0000

Thousand thanks Mark for this helpful post. Even it is 8 years old, it still helps.

By: Urmy

Urmy — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:25:51 +0000

Bad auth String (could not parse username/password): String index out of range: -1

By: HPSM

HPSM — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 07:43:12 +0000

In reply to Rich Jardine.

Hi,
Even i want to connect to HPSM Incident Management Web Service to Create Incident.

I am getting error message:
SoapHeaderException: Bad auth String (could not parse username/password): String index out of range: -1

please help

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:06:52 +0000

Hi,

I am getting error message:
SoapHeaderException: Bad auth String (could not parse username/password): String index out of range: -1

please help

By: szilard

szilard — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:17:57 +0000

In reply to Justin Ramel. Justin's solution did the trick. Thanks!

By: Oscar

Oscar — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:25:42 +0000

2 days fighting with the problem of sending the auth header.. until I have found this post this morning.

Thanks a lot!

By: Oregon Mike

Oregon Mike — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:01:45 +0000

This is FANTASIC!!! I wish I would have read Rich Jardine’s comments first. I got it working by using “Basic ” + Convert.ToBase64String(credentialBuffer);

By: uday

uday — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:39:07 +0000

Hi,

I have implemented the code suggested here but it is not working, can someone please suggest if I need to change anything to make it work.

By: Srinath

Srinath — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:12:41 +0000

Your write up is very straight. Thanks for the post.

By: debajyoti

debajyoti — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:50:33 +0000

hi, i am using remedy itsm 7.6.03
while consuming a web service it shows a error the request failed with HTTP status 505 version not supported.
plz help me to solve this.

By: Rick Schott

Rick Schott — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:19:11 +0000

Very helpful, solved my issue.

By: syam

syam — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:38:14 +0000

Hi mark, this article is really helpful. I want to configure client to send credentials for each request. You said "In my original posting, I demonstrated how to control the .NET client." Can you please share me the link for configuring client? Thanks in advance.

By: Ahmet ARDAL

Ahmet ARDAL — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:31:39 +0000

Mark,
Thanks in advance…

By: Rich Jardine

Rich Jardine — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:26:53 +0000

Mark,
I’ll add my thanks to all the others. I was having trouble connecting with an HP Service Manager Web Service ( Apache ) from a .NET client. The HPSM process dies on the UNIX box without the preauthentiation header. I wasted a lot of time until I found this post on your blog. You are steely eyed coder man. Many thanks!!!

Best Regards,
Rich

p.s.
I only had to modify one line of your function:
from
"Basic" + Convert.ToBase64String(credentialBuffer);
to
"Basic" + "\t" + Convert.ToBase64String(credentialBuffer);

By: Mehul Bhuva

Mehul Bhuva — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:17:09 +0000

Thanks Mark for this wonderfull post, it solved my problem of Basic authentication using Web-services…

By: Dan Kristensen

Dan Kristensen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:57:21 +0000

Great post Mark, but like Tommy I had to insert a space between "Basic" and the BASE64 encoded credentials. Thanks! :o)

By: David Homer

David Homer — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:34:32 +0000

Helpful post!

Is there any way to force BASIC authentication from the client app? For example if IIS is configured for both BASIC and INTEGRATED authentication and the Client app can authenticated using INTEGRATED however you want to explicitly override this using BASIC authentication how can this be achived?

Thanks,

Dave

By: Tommy

Tommy — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:04:07 +0000

Another poor soul that’s been saved by your blog post, Mark! However, I had to insert a space between "Basic" and the BASE64 encoded credentials string, but maybe that’s just me.

Anyway, thanks a million! :D

By: nate

nate — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:38:02 +0000

thanks for the post helped out a lot.

By: Eliseu Martinho

Eliseu Martinho — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:17:05 +0000

Thanks for the post! My collegue and I were going nuts for almost over 2 weeks trying to figure what was the problem with authentication!

Thanks again,

eliseu martinho

By: Walo Hürzeler

Walo Hürzeler — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:48:49 +0000

Thank you very much!
I spend days to investigate that problem!
You should tell this the guys at webmethods, because the forum is full of threads with that problem!

Thank you!!!