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Handling Authentications

Explore how to handle authentications in SOAP API automation using WS-Security. Learn to add authorization headers with plain text or digest passwords, send secure requests, and handle authentication errors effectively.

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We have already learned that SOAP can have its own implementation of security using WS-Security. The following is a sample SOAP header to pass plain text username and password:

Sample SOAP authorization header

<wsse:Security xmlns:wsse="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" wsse:mustUnderstand="1">
  <wsse:UsernameToken>
     <wsse:Username>testuser</wsse:Username>
     <wsse:Password Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">testpass</wsse:Password>
  </wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>

In the sample SOAP header above, we pass plain text username and password. Please take a look at the password type, as passwords ...