Symptom
- 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.
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Environment
- SAP NetWeaver
- Web Services ABAP
Product
SAP NetWeaver all versions
Keywords
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
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