https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/3084/can-i-turn-on-off-webservice-authentication-programmatically<p>Hi all</p> <p>We have a webservice which implemented on ivy. This service serve for many customer. As default it required basic-auth. <img alt="alt text" src="https://answers.axonivy.com/upfiles/Untitled_JZ9zRwy.png"> Now some of customers dont want to be authenticated when calling it, so we intend to introduce the global var where admin can allow to turn on/off this feature.</p> <p>Can we go with that way and how to turn off/on this authentication type programmatically?</p> <p>Thanks</p>enThu, 01 Feb 2018 06:15:46 -0500https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/3084/can-i-turn-on-off-webservice-authentication-programmatically#3088<p>hi <a href="https://answers.axonivy.com/users/11/reto-weiss"><a href="https://answers.axonivy.com/users/11/reto-weiss">@Reto Weiss</a></a> ♦♦ I guess we can't get ivy user from that filter, right?</p>trungdvThu, 01 Feb 2018 06:15:46 -0500https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/3084/can-i-turn-on-off-webservice-authentication-programmatically#3088https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/3084/can-i-turn-on-off-webservice-authentication-programmatically/3086<p>Hi </p> <p>One solution could be to turn authentication to None/Container. Then, for the customers that want to have authentication install a filter in the web.xml or a tomcat valve in the context.xml file that performs the HTTP Basic Authentification for WebService requests</p> <p>Regards</p> <p>Reto Weiss, Axon.ivy Support</p>Reto WeissThu, 01 Feb 2018 06:10:37 -0500https://answers.axonivy.com/questions/3084/can-i-turn-on-off-webservice-authentication-programmatically/3086