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DataStage Web Services Pack does not support Digest authentication.

Troubleshooting


Problem

The DataStage Web Services Pack stages, such as the Web Services Client and Web Services Transformer, fail when the web service being called requires Digest authentication.

Symptom

An error similar to this will be seen in the job log:

Fatal Error: Fatal: 0026`:`com.ascentialsoftware.wsclient.ServiceInvocationException: Service invocation exception: <ns1:Fault xmlns:ns1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;
   <faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:HTTP</faultcode&gt;
   <faultstring>(401)Authorization Required</faultstring>
   <detail>
    <string>return code:  401
&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN&quot;&gt;
&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;401 Authorization Required&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;Authorization Required&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.  Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn&apos;t understand how to supply
the credentials required.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;
</string>
   </detail>
  </ns1:Fault>

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Modified date:
25 April 2025

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