Login into Sharepoint Site from Web service

Question

Is this possible to login into the SharePoint site using the username and password from web service soap header?

Thanks SR

Answer 1

If your SharePoint site is using FBA, you can use authentication.asmx webservice to get the authentication cookie. If your site is using Windows, you can directly assign defaultcredentials of logged in user like :

proxy.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;