SOAP UI Tool – SOAP HTTPS Client Authentication

The article focuses on ‘How to use SOAP UI test tool’ to test certificate based authentication from a local machine. This could be utilized when the consultant lacks access to the sending system to send messages from it.

Entities Involved:

• SOAP UI Test Tool;
• SAP PI 7.1;

Key Words & Extensions:

• .crt/.cer (X.509 certificate extensions), .p12 (Private Key with Cert from PI Key store)

Assumptions:

• Understanding of SSL connectivity;
• Configuration of we service & WSDL generation is already completed;
• Private Key enabled certificate loaded into sending party’s key store & linked to your scenario;
• Private Key is shared with PI consultant;
• Public Key enabled certificate shared with PI consultant;
• Downloaded & Installed SOAP UI test tool;

Introduction:

There are 2 steps in implementing this scenario.
Step-1: Key pair generation & obtaining public key certificate for loading into SAP PI;
Step-2: Obtaining private key certificate for loading into SOAP UI test tool;
Execute the tasks in this SOAP Sender – HTTPS Certificate Based Authentication.

Procedure:

Step-1:

• Obtain the generated key pairs; 

Step-2:

• Open the SOAP UI test tool & load the WSDL file as shown in enclosed screen:

• When the ‘request’ message is opened, the request & response message frames could be seen as shown in the screen below:

• Navigate to ‘Show Project View’ in its properties menu as shown in screen below:

• In this wizard, navigate to ‘Security Configurations->Keystores/ Certificates’ as shown in screen below.
• Load private key certificate & provide the password of the private key file here:

• Now, the loaded private key has to be selected for this request message.
• Screen enclosed below is before selecting the private key in property window for SOAP request message:

• Screen enclosed below is after selecting the private key in property window for SOAP request message:

• Final task is to send an empty SOAP request message as in left frame & the response received is in right frame as in screen enclosed below .

Isn’t that very simple? Good Luck..! 🙂