Before you begin
Prior to completing these steps, read either of the following topics to become familiar with the Security Extensions tab and the Binding Configurations tab in the Web services editor within the Assembly Toolkit:Why and when to perform this task
Complete the following steps to configure the server for request digital signature verification. The steps describe how to modify the extensions to indicate which parts of the request to verify.Steps for this task
Results
Note: If you configure the client and server signing information correctly, but receive a Soap body not signed error when executing the client, you might need to configure the actor. You can configure the actor in the following locations on the client in the Web Services Client Editor within the WebSphere Application Server Toolkit:
You must configure the same actor strings for the Web service on the server, which processes the request and sends the response back. Configure the actor in the following locations in the Web Services Editor within the WebSphere Application Server Toolkit:
The actor information on both the client and server must refer to the same exact string. When the actor fields on the client and server match, the request or response is acted upon instead of being forwarded downstream. The actor fields might be different when you have Web services acting as a gateway to other Web services. However, in all other cases, make sure that the actor information matches on the client and server. When Web services are acting as a gateway and they do not have the same actor configured as the request passing through the gateway, Web services do not process the message from a client. Instead, these Web services send the request downstream. The downstream process that contains the correct actor string processes the request. The same situation occurs for the response. Therefore, it is important that you verify that the appropriate client and server actor fields are synchronized.
You have specified which message parts are digitally signed and must be verified by the server when the client sends a message to a server.What to do next
After you specify which message parts contain a digital signature that must be verified by the server, you must configure the server to recognize the digital signature method used to digitally sign the message. See Configuring the server for request digital signature verification: Choosing the verification method for more information.