Authentication in Web Services Created with Previous Versions¶

The available authentication options depend on the service type:

For REST, JSON, HTML and RSS the options are:

• None. The Service can be accessed without authentication.

• HTTP Basic. Basic HTTP authentication (RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication) with the credentials passed as plain text.

  All the users will use the values of the fields “Login” and “Password” as credentials for accessing this Service.

• HTTP Basic with VDP. Basic HTTP authentication using the credentials of the Virtual DataPort users. That is, the Web service will connect to Virtual DataPort with the credentials used by the client of the Web service.

  Only users whose user name is in the “Accepted user(s)” list will have access to the Service (separate user names with commas). If this list is empty, the Web Service will accept all Virtual DataPort users.

  Unlike with the other authentication methods, with this one, you have to grant the user privileges to access the published views.

• HTTP Digest. HTTP Digest access authentication.

The authentication options for SOAP Web Services are the same as for REST, JSON, HTML and RSS, but also support the Web Services Security protocol (WS-Security).