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SOA Security
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SOA Security

by Prasad Chodavarapu, Ramarao Kanneganti
December 2007
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
15h 28m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 4. Claiming and verifying identity with passwords

This chapter covers

  • Password-based authentication
  • Plain-text passwords
  • Digest authentication

As you saw in the previous chapter, the SOAP specification allows headers to be used for extending SOAP. WS-Security defines standard security headers for SOAP. In the first demonstration of WS-Security, we sent a username in a standard header. We also discussed the code behind that demonstration.

Sending the username along with the request is one way to claim identity. Most services require a user to establish his identity before his requests are served. This is because:

  • Security restrictions require that services be provided only to authorized users. While it is not always necessary to ...
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