Web Service Authentication in Coldfusion

[Guest]

Hi
I am trying to perform Web Service Authentication in Coldfusion. The webservice is written using a CFC.
It is a normal CFC, and I am generating the Web Service URL as test.cfc?WSDL
Is there a way that I can authenticate a web service method using SOAP headers ?

There is a code mechanism in ASP.NET, where we can beautify the web service with codes  that will ask for a username and password for

accessing a method of a web service.

I am testing the web services using SOAP Sonar, it is a very good tool. When testing, if there is an authentication mechanism in a web service,

then it will prompt you to enter the user name and password. At the moment, I have included two fields (username and password) for each

method to do the custom authentication against a login info stored in Application.cfm.

I found a way using WSSJ4 from Apache, but it looked too complex and not very straight forward to acheive it.

Please if anyone have found a solution, please let me know.

Thank you in advance..

Josh Thomas

[Dileep_NR]

Please try the follwoing code set

/*REMOTE METHOD

soaptest.cfc

*/

<cffunction name="addNumbers" access="remote" returntype="test" output="false">

        <cfargument name="firstNumber" type="string" required="true"/>

        <cfargument name="secondNumber" type="string" required="true"/>

        <cfset retunVal="NO">

        <cfset username=0>

        <cfif isSOAPRequest()>

                <cfset retunVal="YES">

                <cfset username = getSOAPRequestHeader("http://localhost/testsoap/", "setInit")>

                 <cfset retunVal= arguments.firstNumber + arguments.secondNumber & username>

        </cfif>

        <cfreturn retunVal />

    </cffunction>

/**

/*calling remote method

index.cfm

*/
<cfsavecontent variable="soap">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope
        xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
        xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns="http://localhost/testsoap/">
        <soapenv:Header>
        <setInit>1</setInit>
        </soapenv:Header>
        <soapenv:Body>
        <addNumbers soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" >
        <firstNumber>1000</firstNumber>
        <secondNumber>10</secondNumber>
        </addNumbers>
        </soapenv:Body>
        </soapenv:Envelope>
</cfsavecontent>

<!--- Note that there's no ?wsdl appendage to the url --->
<cfhttp url="http://localhost/testsoap/soaptest.cfc" method="post">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="content-type" value="text/xml">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="content-length" value="#len(soap)#">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="charset" value="utf-8">
    <cfhttpparam type="xml" name="message" value="#trim(soap)#">
</cfhttp>