2558183 - special characters in the password of a SOAP Web Service are not transferred correctly in the HTTP header

• Special characters in the password of a SOAP Web Service are not encoded correctly in the SOAP request. The user credentials are sent in the HTTP header with basic transport channel authentication.
• The service provider returns HTTP 401 Unauthorized.
• When monitoring the web service call with any HTTP monitoring tool it is visible that the special character in the password is wrongly converted to '#' or to some other character.

• SAP NetWeaver
• Web Services ABAP

HTTP basic authentication, message based authentication, special characters in the password, wrong encoding of special characters, non-ASCII , KBA , BC-ESI-WS-ABA-RT , WebServices ABAP Runtime , BC-ESI-WS-ABA-CFG , WebServices ABAP Configuration , Problem