In what scenarios would it be more beneficial to implement password protection for individual methods, as opposed to using setCredentials in Nusoap?

When dealing with sensitive information or when different methods require different levels of access control, it may be more beneficial to implement password protection for individual methods instead of using setCredentials in Nusoap. This allows for more granular control over who can access specific methods within the SOAP service. 

// Example of implementing password protection for individual methods in Nusoap

require_once('lib/nusoap.php');

// Initialize SOAP server
$server = new soap_server();

// Define a method that requires password protection
$server->register('secureMethod', array('param' => 'xsd:string'), array('return' => 'xsd:string'));

// Implement password protection for the secureMethod
function secureMethod($param) {
    // Check if the user has valid credentials before allowing access to the method
    if ($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] == 'username' && $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] == 'password') {
        // Method logic goes here
        return 'Access granted to secureMethod';
    } else {
        header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My SOAP Server"');
        header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
        die('Access denied');
    }
}

// Handle SOAP requests
$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA) ? $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA : '';
$server->service($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);

Keywords

password protection individual methods setCredentials Nusoap scenarios

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