Question

I need to get username and password from HttpServletRequest to process the basic authentication. What I have is CXF endpoint and the basic auth interceptor. The HttpServletRequest I get like this:

public void handleMessage(Message message)            
        throws Fault {
    HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest) message.get(AbstractHTTPDestination.HTTP_REQUEST); 

}

When I tried to debug the code and I see that:

request.getAuthType() is null
request.getRemoteUser() is null

The username and password I am sending with the request from Soap UI. So the question is how am I able to get the username and password from the request?

EDIT

Header looks like this:

POST http://localhost:8011/GradIrelandUserRegistration HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
SOAPAction: ""
Authorization: Basic UGF1bGl1czpQYXVsaXVzMTIz
Content-Length: 3170
Host: localhost:8011
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

They say that Authorization is basic, but then why call request.getAuthType() is returning null?

Answer 1

I was able to figure it out my self. In Soap UI I needed to change the Authentication type to:

Preemptive

and then use:

AuthorizationPolicy policy = (AuthorizationPolicy) message.get(AuthorizationPolicy.class.getName());

From the policy object now I am able to get the username and password.