Node soap, consume password protected WSDL

node.js, soap, web-services, wsdl

Solution

Username and password credentials can be passed like this:

var soap = require('soap');
var url = 'your WSDL url';
var auth = "Basic " + new Buffer("your username" + ":" + "your password").toString("base64");

soap.createClient(url, { wsdl_headers: {Authorization: auth} }, function(err, client) {
});

(derived from https://github.com/vpulim/node-soap/issues/56, thank you Gabriel Lucena https://github.com/glucena)

Problem

I'm trying to build a SOAP client with Node, I'm using "soap" package (https://www.npmjs.org/package/soap) trying to consume a user/password protected WSDL. I can't find how to pass those credentials before creating the client by "soap.createClient", and of course, I can't retrieve the WSDL if I don't provide the right credentials. I've tried doing: soap.security.WSSecurity('user', 'pass'); and then calling "createClient" but to no avail. Also, I've tried to do it with the node-soap-client, with this client I (apparently) can connect to the WSDL, but after that, I've no idea where to go (how to invoke methods). What am I doing wrong? Thanks for all your help!

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