Authentication Is Failing On SOAP Web Service (Doc ID 2876496.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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Goal

Authentication is failing on SOAP Web Service

When trying to invoke BIP Service ScheduleReportWSSService using username password token authentication policy we get the below error:

Error: SOAP must understand error. MustUnderstand headers:["{http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd}Security"] are not understood.

It seems that some security policy is missing as this API is supposed to accept such authentication type.

Steps To Recreate:

1. Import the service WSDL into a SOAP Client <URL>/xmlpserver/services/ScheduleReportWSSService?wsdl

2. Use the below payload in the scheduleReport service

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:sch="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/ScheduleReportService">
<soap:Header/>
  <soap:Body>
    <sch:scheduleReport>
      <scheduleRequest>
        <deliveryChannels>
          <ftpOptions>
            <item>
              <ftpServerName>SFTP_Retail</ftpServerName>
                <remoteFile>/****.admin/BI/data/WS_Report_SMK.csv</remoteFile>
              <sftpOption>true</sftpOption>
            </item>
          </ftpOptions>
        </deliveryChannels>
        <reportRequest>
          <attributeFormat>text</attributeFormat>
          <reportAbsolutePath>/**** Custom/Interfaces/INT0119/****_INT0119_Merch_Hier_Reclass_CSV_Report.xdo</reportAbsolutePath>
          <sizeOfDataChunkDownload>-1</sizeOfDataChunkDownload>
        </reportRequest>
        <saveDataOption>true</saveDataOption>
        <saveOutputOption>true</saveOutputOption>
        <useUTF8Option>true</useUTF8Option>
      </scheduleRequest>
    </sch:scheduleReport>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

3. Submit the request and observe the response:

Error: SOAP must understand error. MustUnderstand headers:["{http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd}Security"] are not understood.

Solution

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