Securing Web Services with WSO2 ESB - Securing a proxy service with basic authentication (Username Token)
Web Services Security , or to be more precise, SOAP message security, identifies and provides solutions for general computer security threats as well as threats unique to Web services. WSO2 Carbon supports WS Security, WS-Policy and WS-Security Policy specifications. These specifications define a behavioral model for Web services. A requirement for one Web service may not be valid for another. Thus, defining service-specific requirements might be necessary. The WSO2 SOA platform provides important security features to your service. By default the security features are disabled . Securing a proxy service with basic authentication (Username Token) Pre-requisites – Download the latest stable release of WSO2 ESB from here. Step 1 – Start WSO2 ESB server Step 2 – Create a Proxy Service. (We will use the Echo service shipped with WSO2 ESB here) <proxy xmlns=” http://ws.apache.org/ns/synapse” ; name=”PoxSecurityProxy” transports=”https” statistics=”dis...