How to implement Web service Basic Authentication without using identity activity?
Article ID: KB0085486
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| Products | Versions |
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| TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks | - |
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Description
Description:
BW basic authentication requires client to provide username and password in “identity” activity. However, customer needs to change the password without restarting BW. The “identity” activity does not support this and we have to manually implement it in BW.
Issue/Introduction
How to implement Web service Basic Authentication without using identity activity?
Resolution
First of all, we need to add
an additional HTTP header “Authorization” into the “Send HTTP
Request” activity. The value of this “Authorization”
header can be created like this in Java code:
function make_base_auth(user, password) {
var tok = user + ':' + pass;
var hash = Base64.encode(tok);
return "Basic " + hash;
}
In BW, create the value like this:
concat('Basic ', tib:string-to-base64(concat($username, ':', $password)))
You need to store the user name and password in a file or DB. Use BW to read the user name and password dynamically from the file or DB. See the attached sample project (Filename: basic_authentication_468916.zip).
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