Identifying the participants for a Web service

When a Web service is provided by the Community Manager for use by participants, WebSphere Business Integration Connect requires that a participant identify itself. When posting the Web service request, set the identity in one of the following two ways:

  1. Use HTTP Basic Authentication with User ID of the form:
  2. Present an SSL client certificate that has been previously loaded into WebSphere Business Integration Connect for the participant

When the Web service is provided by a participant, for use by the Community Manager, the public URL used by the Community Manager to invoke the Web service should contain the query string '?to=<participant's business ID>'. An example is:

http://WBIChost/bcgreceiver/Receiver?to=123456789

This tells WebSphere Business Integration Connect that the provider of the Web service is the participant with business ID '123456789'.

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