Send BASIC auth credentials using cxf client

Question

I am sending the auth credentials using a cxf webservice client and it says:

javax.xml.ws.WebServiceException: Could not send Message.

Caused by: org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPException: HTTP response '401: Unauthorized' when communicating with http://localhost:8080/AccountFacadeService/AccountService

My client is:

QName SERVICE_NAME = new QName("http://webservice.account.com/", "AccountFacadeService");
URL WSDL_LOCATION = http://localhost:8080/AccountFacadeService/AccountService?wsdl;

AccountFacadeService stub = new AccountFacadeService(WSDL_LOCATION, SERVICE_NAME);
AccountService port = stub.getAccountServicePort(); 

((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.USERNAME_PROPERTY, "user");
((BindingProvider) port).getRequestContext().put(BindingProvider.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, "pass");

Is there more to headers that I'm missing?

Answer 1

Alright, after many hours of digging into the issue I finally found the answer to my question.

1. Make sure the role in the security realm of the glassfish server console is correctly configured and the same is maintained in the glassfish-ejb-jar.xml
2. The authentication credentials are passed the way I'm passing in my post. Sometimes when the client is unable to create for you the header you may try password authenticator.

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final String username = "user";
final String password = "pass";
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
    @Override
    protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
            return new PasswordAuthentication(
                    username,
                    password.toCharArray());
            }
});