Testing HTTP Digest-authenticated RESTful web services
HTTP Digest authentication is a step up from Basic authentication, both in the level of the protection it offers and its complexity. Strangely, it is apparently available in SoapUI, despite not being obviously stated as supported in either the documentation or via the user interface! This recipe builds on the previous one to show how to set up and test an HTTP Digest-authenticated RESTful web service hosted on Tomcat.
As HTTP Digest authentication is lengthier to explain than HTTP Basic authentication, we will not cover its implementation in detail. So if you would like to understand more, then perhaps do some background reading. Wikipedia is a good place to start (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication).
Getting ready
Similar to the previous recipe, Tomcat will be used to provide the HTTP Digest authentication, and the helloworld-webapp Jersey sample will again be used to test against. So follow the advice mentioned...
