Authentication Failed (WFHTTP000008) while calling EJB over HTTP using wildfly http naming client

[Abuthahir Syed]

We are trying to use wildfly-http-naming-client for http://host:8080/wildfly-services (instead of remote+http://host:8080/ ) and facing below mentioned exception. Have added the wildfly-config.xml to the java path using -Dwildfly.config.url= option.

wildfly-config.xml file contents as below:

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<configuration>
    <authentication-client xmlns="urn:elytron:1.0">
        <authentication-rules>
                    <rule use-configuration="default" />
        </authentication-rules>
        <authentication-configurations>
            <configuration name="default">
                <sasl-mechanism-selector selector="#ALL" />
                <set-mechanism-properties>
                    <property key="wildfly.sasl.local-user.quiet-auth" value="true" />
                 </set-mechanism-properties>
                <providers>
                    <use-service-loader/>
                </providers>
             </configuration>
        </authentication-configurations>
    </authentication-client>
</configuration>

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Exception trace as below :

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getInitialContextForSubsystem {java.naming.provider.url=http://somehost.ekiies.com:8180/wildfly-services, java.naming.factory.initial=org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyInitialContextFactory, java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.jboss.ejb.client.naming, jboss.naming.client.ejb.context=true}
Sep 09, 2022 4:41:28 PM org.wildfly.naming.client.Version <clinit>
INFO: WildFly Naming version 1.0.15.Final
Sep 09, 2022 4:41:28 PM org.wildfly.security.Version <clinit>
INFO: ELY00001: WildFly Elytron version 1.19.0.Final
Sep 09, 2022 4:41:28 PM org.xnio.Xnio <clinit>
INFO: XNIO version 3.6.5.Final-redhat-00001
Sep 09, 2022 4:41:28 PM org.xnio.nio.NioXnio <clinit>
INFO: XNIO NIO Implementation Version 3.6.5.Final-redhat-00001
Sep 09, 2022 4:41:28 PM org.jboss.threads.Version <clinit>
INFO: JBoss Threads version 3.5.0.Final
Sep 09, 2022 4:41:28 PM org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl <clinit>
INFO: JBoss Remoting version 5.0.8.Final-redhat-1
javax.naming.NamingException [Root exception is java.lang.SecurityException: WFHTTP000008: Authentication failed]
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.naming.HttpRootContext.performOperation(HttpRootContext.java:346)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.naming.HttpRootContext.lambda$processInvocation$1(HttpRootContext.java:259)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.naming.HttpRootContext.performWithRetry(HttpRootContext.java:183)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.naming.HttpRootContext.processInvocation(HttpRootContext.java:240)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.naming.HttpRootContext.lookupNative(HttpRootContext.java:119)
    at org.wildfly.naming.client.AbstractContext.lookup(AbstractContext.java:84)
    at org.wildfly.naming.client.WildFlyRootContext.lookup(WildFlyRootContext.java:144)
    at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:417)
    at com.ekiies.jnation.security.jboss.JBossLoginModule.serverLogin(JBossLoginModule.java:60)
    at com.ekiies.jnation.security.login.client.JFoundationClientLoginModule.login(JFoundationClientLoginModule.java:98)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invoke(LoginContext.java:755)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.access$000(LoginContext.java:195)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:682)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:680)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invokePriv(LoginContext.java:680)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.login(LoginContext.java:587)
    at com.ekiies.jnation.client.jaassessionmanager.JAASSessionManager$5.run(JAASSessionManager.java:1661)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:311)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:756)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:97)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:703)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:726)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)
Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: WFHTTP000008: Authentication failed
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.common.HttpTargetContext$2$1.lambda$completed$0(HttpTargetContext.java:209)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.common.HttpConnectionPool.runPending(HttpConnectionPool.java:134)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.common.HttpConnectionPool.getConnection(HttpConnectionPool.java:83)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.common.HttpTargetContext$2$1.lambda$completed$1(HttpTargetContext.java:204)
    at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:92)
    at org.xnio.ChannelListeners$DrainListener.handleEvent(ChannelListeners.java:1145)
    at org.xnio.ChannelListeners$DrainListener.handleEvent(ChannelListeners.java:1125)
    at org.wildfly.httpclient.common.HttpTargetContext$2$1.lambda$completed$4(HttpTargetContext.java:215)
    at org.jboss.threads.ContextHandler$1.runWith(ContextHandler.java:18)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$Task.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:2513)
    at org.jboss.threads.EnhancedQueueExecutor$ThreadBody.run(EnhancedQueueExecutor.java:1512)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)