How to pass user id and password to Webservice

Hi How to pass userid and password, to validate user calling web service. I want to validate userid and password against some validation framework, so what is the best way to pass it Weather to put it in Header element of web service? or weather in Body Element? What is the best practise, are

Re: How to pass user id and password to Webservice

Ashish, You can use one of several authentication protocols with Axis2. Here are some useful links: http://wso2.org/library/161 http://ws.apache.org/axis2/modules/rampart/1_1/security-module.html Thanks, Ted - Original Message - From: Ashish Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: