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Basic authentication is simple and convenient, but it is not secure. It should only be used to prevent unintentional access from nonmalicious parties or used in combination with an encryption technology such as SSL.
In simple terms, authentication is the process of verifying who a user is, while authorization is the process of verifying what they have access to. Comparing these processes to a real-world example, when you go through security in an airport, you show your ID to authenticate your identity.
To manage authorizations in the request: Open the XML editor for the needed request. Open the Auth panel. In the Auth panel, you configure authentication parameters for your request. To add a new authorization: In the Authorization drop-down list, select Add New Authorization.
When to use HTTP basic AUTH and WS-Security?
For web services, if we use SoapUI (for SOAP Services) or Postman Client (For REST Services), we can easily specify the HTTP basic auth for authentication. WS-Security is message level security in SOAP web services.
How to create a secure SOAP web service?
In order to create a secure SOAP web service, you need to add a security layer through the SOAP header. You can find the steps to do this here . What this does is add a security credential to the SOAP header. You add the username and password as variables so that each time you generate a SOAP message, you generate these as part of the header.
How to enable or disable preemptive authentication in soap?
Go to File > Preferences. Switch to the HTTP Settings tab. To enable preemptive authentication, select the Authenticate preemptively check box. To disable preemptive authentication, clear the Authenticate preemptively check box. Support for SOAP and REST API Testing.