Accessing a password-protected proxy server
Configure access to an external web service or WSDL file through a password-protected proxy server.
About this task
Service integration technologies requires access to the Internet for invoking outbound services and for retrieval of external WSDL files. Many enterprise installations use a proxy server in support of Internet routing, and many proxy servers require authentication before they grant access to the Internet. This requirement is supported in HTTP messaging by a Proxy-Authorization message header that contains encoded user ID and password credentials.
To enable service integration technologies to invoke an outbound service you configure, for each outbound port, a proxy host, port and J2C authentication alias.
When you create or modify inbound or outbound services, the service integration bus might also
have to pass messages through an authenticating proxy server to retrieve WSDL documents.
Consequently you must configure the proxy host and port that are used.
Note: Neither the
administrative console panels used to create a new web service configuration, nor the
Reload WSDL option provided in the panels used to modify an existing web
service configuration, allow you to enter an authentication alias for WSDL retrieval. If the bus
needs to pass messages through an authenticating proxy server to retrieve WSDL documents, then you
must use command-line tools
to retrieve the WSDL.