Invoking Web Service via HTTP with basic authentication

There are two questions here:

a) HTTP Basic Authentication

b) Setting general HTTP Headeres.

Is there any way to configure the WS invocation to supply those ?

ANSWER:

This can be done one of two ways.

Option 1: Adminstratively set in SMC.

-- If you create an outbound routing definition for the URL (e.g. http://abc.com), you can specify a Username and Password for the routing. All HTTP requests will use these for HTTP Basic Authentication.

Option 2: per request in web service invocation step

-- On the Web Service Invocation step, go to the Advanced properties. Set the X-HTTP-AuthUser and X-HTTP-AuthPassword to appropriate values. Note that these values can be substituted from System properties, message headers, etc

Also, is there a way to configure the WS invocation

with arbitrary HTTP headers?

Yes. Any JMS Property added to the message sent to the HTTP destination will be converted to an HTTP header. Again, on the Web Service Invocation step, go to the Advanced properties, and simply add Custom properties

The attached file shows the Web Service Invocation page with settings for Basic Auth, as well as two custom headers. The right side shows a TCP/IP Mon of the HTTP request that reselts. Note the Authorziation: Basic, and the MyHeader1 and MyHeader2

Is the WS Invocation step still available in V8.0?

Does it handle wrapping and unwrapping the SOAP tags around the message content for making the request and receiving the response?

Is there a list of the "X-HTTP-" properties that can be set or over-ridden for using these steps?  I'd like to use this kind of step to make a generic WS invocation where I require making the same web service call to more than one web service provider.  I have knowledge of which URL I ultimately need to request to and I'd like to over-ride that URL at runtime.

Thanks.

Do the Custom header properties allow the variable substitution expressions like the Advanced and Default WSDL Port Address URL allow?  Your attached gif file shows the use of the variable expression on one of the Advanced properties and I've used the expression $[esbmsg:header:WSDL Port Address URL} to override that default property.  I need to dynamically populate some custom header properties that I want the invocation step to pass on as HTTP headers.

I've defined a custom property named 'endpoint'.  The string expression I used is what get's populated as an HTTP header on the receiving end of the WS Invocation Step invocation.  I had hoped that the expression would take the value of the header property referenced.  Is there a way to dynamically override known custom properties?

On the receiving side, it literally just sent the expression as a string when I iterated over the message headers:

    Header:
        name = "endpoint"
        class = "java.lang.String"
        value = "${esbmsg:header:endpoint}