Authenticating Users
You authenticate a user to learn his or her identity. The identity information might be used to make sure a person should have access to the Web Service. You may also use the identity to track the user's activities. When it comes to authenticating your users, you have several options:
Application level authentication— Users identify themselves via credentials supplied in the SOAP message.
HTTP Basic authentication— The username and password are sent as clear text. This is not useful for secure applications, but it can be useful in combination with other identification techniques.
HTTP Digest authentication— This tool sends a hashed version of the basic authentication credentials so that only the server can decode them.
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