On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Kasun Indrasiri <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the UEP context, its ok to add any http headers to the transport
> configuration. However, I wonder that having password in plain text may
> cause some security issues.

+1 for not having plain text passwords. Cant we use a callback class
to get the password ?

Thanks
AmilaJ

> Fix looks good.
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Thilini Ishaka <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> When we invoke an admin service via a BPEL process, we get HTTP 401
>> Unauthorized error. If you go through [1] you will understand the scenario
>> better.
>> This was an issue in appfactory product as all the services, we have there
>> are administrative services and we invoke them via BPEL processes.
>>
>> Normally what we do is pass http headers via a fronting ESB, but that is
>> not the ideal solution.
>> Here we are giving the solution via UEP concept. We add relevant http
>> headers basically the username and password via unified endpoints.
>> A sample configuration (.epr) is given below.
>>
>> <wsa:Metadata>
>> <id>SInvokeEPR</id>
>> <transport type="http">
>>     <authorization-username>adminx</authorization-username>
>>     <authorization-password>adminy</authorization-password>
>> </transport>
>> </wsa:Metadata>
>>
>> In the setBasicAccessSecurityHeaders, we put HTTP header with name
>> "Authorization". Hence the username and password elements are named
>> <authorization-username/> , <authorization-password/> in epr configuration.
>>
>> Please find the JIRA [2] created for this task. Further information are
>> added to the JIRA. Please find the sample attached to the JIRA FYI.
>> Kindly appreciate your suggestions.
>>
>>
>> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10607598/wso2-bps-shared-http-cookies
>> [2] https://wso2.org/jira/browse/CARBON-13111
>>
>> --
>> Thanks
>> Thilini
>>
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