[Geoportal-support] CSW simple authentication for transaction insert operation

[<kie...@gm...>]

Hello geoportal support,

we installed a Geoportal Server and configured it for simple authentication. 

Next, we attempted to insert a MD_Metadata xml via http post applying the Transaction.Insert operation of the CSW. The CSW returned a http 401:

21.02.2012 09:11:45 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector processWWWAuthChallenge
INFO: No credentials available for BASIC 'Geoportal'@freshmon:8082
Exception in thread "main" java.net.ConnectException: http status code 401

Do you know how to login / logout?

I could give the example, how it works with the GeoNetwork CSW. There we send a http post with unsername and password to a special url (http://freshmon/geonetwork/srv/en/xml.user.login), do the Transaction.Insert http post (to url: http://freshmon/geonetwork/srv/en/csw) and finally logout to a certain logout uri (http://freshmon/geonetwork/srv/en/xml.user.logout).

How does this authentication stuff works for Geoportal Server CSW?

We are NOT interested in doing it manually by using the Webapp-GUI, but want to do it programmatically using our own simple post client.

Kind regards,
Kieran
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