Response of a SOAP header

Question

Hello,

I am consuimg a webservice developed in Seibel , so for the security enhancement, I need to pass the username and password and the connection type and the response will be a sessionID within the header. Please find a sample.. So how can i retrieve this sessionToken from SOAP header?

Request

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Header>
    <Header1 xmlns="http://siebel.com/webservices">
      <UsernameToken>[e-mail]</UsernameToken>
      <PasswordText>world.1234</PasswordText>
      <SessionType>Stateless</SessionType>
    </Header1>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <MG_spcPicking_spcParameter_spcExport_spcV02_spcW_Input xmlns="http://siebel.com/CustomUI" />
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Response

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <SOAP-ENV:Header>
      <siebel-header:SessionToken xmlns:siebel-header="http://siebel.com/webservices">NMJ5kb4xLYKa5OpdbQ61Wrc8nblpEXQ6DprcI50GTKo8keNDX-BxOKJOlfuB3.zcuOs1znmT36iye9ynPr1a8enSrjgzkN12nI9fPlzJNXrO9fnN.nEMYVZj74pCWzdcC9Z-fqZyZ.HLdcrrCU-kLlO0K1LpkN01eXjnFMplwdsHZBKEouqHaUdgkqaZKAd7E0vlD86ClOzDV9zJnFrYxvcfPko0epl1N3Iipa4RLPwNEqg4eAaUPvKBj69F18U8Xl-kHjkVHoZrJjeyYbhtR6bMUaf53eHY</siebel-header:SessionToken>
   </SOAP-ENV:Header>
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>

----

<soap:Body>
    <MG_spcPicking_spcParameter_spcExport_spcV02_spcW_Input xmlns="http://siebel.com/CustomUI" />
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Please help..

Thanks in advance

Midhun Sunny

Answer 1

If you are consuming this webservice with WCF, you can use a custom service behaviour to get at this header.

Please see this great post by Paolo Pialorsi:

http://weblogs.asp.net/paolopia/archive/2008/02/25/handling-custom-soap-headers-via-wcf-behaviors.aspx

I hope this helps

Matt

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Matt Dendle