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User Authentication via web service

Former Member

‎09-19-2008 11:16 AM

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Hi Folks,

I will be writing a desktop based application in Adobe Flex/Microsoft .NET which would be based on web services. I have a coupl eof questions.

1. I wish to know how to authenticate the user i.e. say I create a login sreen in my application and accept the user's sap netweaver user/pwd, now I wish to know if there is already any standard web service that can be user to authenticate? If there is no standard web service then how can I achieve this?

2. The next question is even if I am able to do the first step and authnticate the user, how do I maintain the session i.e. the subsequent web service calls should not ask for user credentials.

Thanks & regards,

Gaurav

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Former Member

‎09-19-2008 12:23 PM

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Hi,

You need background information on the HTTP ABAP user authentication concept.

Read :

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/b0/4d2b418a3edb2be10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm

You should get useful information and come back eventually with specific question.

It is not possible to authenticate with a web service (hopefully because that would be a big security risk). It is even the contrary : you must be autenticated to call the web service.

Regards,

Olivier