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About the WS-Security UserName Token Profile Support

Release 7.7 introduces support for WS-Security's UserName Token mechanism, allowing Siebel applications to send and receive user credentials in a standards-compliant manner. The UserName token is a mechanism for providing credentials to a Web Service where the credentials consist of the UserName and Password. The password must be passed in clear text. The UserName token mechanism provides a Web Service with the ability to operate without having the username and password in its URL or having to pass a session cookie with the HTTP request.

Following is a sample of the UserName token showing the username and password.

<wsse:UsernameToken xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility"

<wsse:Username>WKANDINSKY</wsse:Username>

<wsse:Password Type="wsse:PasswordText">AbstractArt123</wsse:Password>

</wsse:UsernameToken>