Demo on Providing PHP Web Service with Username Token

I wrote a blog on Calender DEMO which shows a real world use of the user name token in web service authentication. It describes how you declare different policies per operation in a WSDL and provide authentication information from a callback function.

Http Authentication for SOPA Messages in PHP - 2 Minutes Introduction

Yesterday I wrote about authenticating users using Username token which is a more SOA friendly way of doing authentication. Because it is handled in Message level and clearly defined in WS-Security Specification.

But if you want to do Http Basic Authentication you can still use WSF/PHP as your client. Here is a blog How you send Basic Authentication information with your SOAP message in PHP. Note that here authentication is handled in trasport layer. So this approach is only valid if you are using HTTP transport which is the most common transport to use in web services.

Authenticate using Username Token from PHP - 2 Minutes Introduction

Username token is the most simple scenario described in WS-Security specification. It is used to authenticate users from their SOAP request messages.

The blog "Authenticate using Username Token from PHP - 2 Minutes Introduction" give you quick tutorial how you can implement this in PHP using WSF/PHP.

Short note for Web Services Security API in WSF/PHP 1.3.2

I wrote a little short note on how you can use WS-Security with WSF/PHP 1.3.2 in here. http://www.dimuthu.org/blog/2008/08/18/web-services-security-in-wsfphp-132/