How to configure Axis2 to support Basic, NTLM and Proxy authentication?

Apache Axis2 has inbuilt support for Basic, NTLM and Proxy authentication via commons-httpclient-3.0. Basic and NTLM use preemptive authentication scheme of commons-httpclient.

Date: Mon, 12th Jun, 2006
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Saminda Abeyruwan

WSO2 Inc.

Configuration for Proxy Authentication It has to be noted that Proxy Authentication via httpclient is available only with HTTP 1.0 version. Configuration for Proxy Authentication is available at deployment time (axis2.xml) or runtime.

1. Proxy Authentication at Deployment time In Axis2.xml, user will be able to find the following entry:

<transportSender name="http"
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender">
<parameter name="PROTOCOL"
locked="false">HTTP/1.1</parameter>
<parameter name="Transfer-Encoding"
locked="false">chunked</parameter>
</transportSender>

To enable proxy authentication:

<transportSender name="http"
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.CommonsHTTPTransportSender">
<parameter name="PROTOCOL"
locked="false">HTTP/1.0</parameter>
<parameter name="PROXY" proxy_host="proxy_host_name"
proxy_port="proxy_host_port"
locked="true>userName:domain:passWord</parameter>
</transportSender>

2. Proxy Authenticaion at Runtime. In client or stub:

HttpTransportProperties.ProxyProperties proxyProperties = new
HttpTransportProperties().new ProxyProperties();

proxyProperties.setProxyHostName("axis2");
proxyProperties.setProxyPort(9762);
proxyproperties.setDomain("axis2/anon");
proxyproperties.setPassWord("passwd");
proxyproperties.setUserName("usernm");

//in order to makesure that we use HTTP 1.0
options.setProperty(MessageContextConstants.HTTP_PROTOCOL_VERSION,
HTTPConstants.HEADER_PROTOCOL_10);

options.setProperty(org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.PROXY,
proxyProperties);

Basic and NTLM Authentication Axis2 uses commons-httpclient's preemptive authentication scheme to support Basic and NTLM Authentication.

1. To Enable Basic Authentication

HttpTransportProperties.BasicAuthentication basicAuthentication =
                    new HttpTransportProperties().new BasicAuthentication();

            basicAuthentication.setUsername("axis2");
            basicAuthentication.setPassword("axis2");
            options.setProperty(

org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.BASIC_AUTHENTICATION,
                    basicAuthentication);

2. To Enable NTLM Authentication

HttpTransportProperties.NTLMAuthentication ntlmAuthentication =
                    new HttpTransportProperties().new NTLMAuthentication();

            ntlmAuthentication.setUsername("axis2");
            ntlmAuthentication.setPassword("axis2");
            ntlmAuthentication.setHost("axis2");
            ntlmAuthentication.setPort(9443);
            ntlmAuthentication.setRealm("someRealm");
            
            options.setProperty(

org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.NTLM_AUTHENTICATION,
                    ntlmAuthentication);

If the SharePoint server

Submitted by stablerich on October 29, 2009 - 10:36.

If the SharePoint server returns an error, you'll see "detail unsupported element in SOAPFault element". I haven't found a way to work around this bug in Axis2. Try to set the log level of "org.apache.axis2" to "DEBUG" and you'll see what the SharePoint server sent back (not that it will help in most of the cases ...) Printable Address Labels

I'm trying to access a

Submitted by stablerich on October 24, 2009 - 12:42.

I'm trying to access a webservice which needs basic authentication using Axis2 client stubs. However, I can't seem to find HttpTransportProperties.BasicAuthentication static class or org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.BASIC_AUTHENTICATION static field. I'm using Axis2 1.4.1 release. Any help would be really appreciated. เครื่องสำอางเกาหลี

This is problematic because

Submitted by stablerich on October 12, 2009 - 13:41.

This is problematic because you propose this as a solution when the code is not even available yet. What version of HttpClient does this presume is in use? Skinfood

If the SharePoint server

Submitted by chrlesdikkenson on September 10, 2009 - 23:23.

These classes do not exist in Axis2 1.4.1 or 1.5

Submitted by hbetts3 on September 9, 2009 - 07:57.

This is problematic because you propose this as a solution when the code is not even available yet. What version of HttpClient does this presume is in use?

Cannot find static classes mentioned

Submitted by nimeshe on January 12, 2009 - 22:31.

Hi, I'm trying to access a webservice which needs basic authentication using Axis2 client stubs. However, I can't seem to find HttpTransportProperties.BasicAuthentication static class or org.apache.axis2.transport.http.HTTPConstants.BASIC_AUTHENTICATION static field. I'm using Axis2 1.4.1 release. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks. Nimeshe