Overview
The Header element of the cXML document contains addressing and authentication information. The Header is the same regardless of the specific Request or Response cXML message. The main elements of the Header are From, To, and Sender. Each of the elements contains the Credential element that allows you to specify identification and authentication values.
The Credential element has the following attributes:
domain. Specifies the type of credential. This attribute allows documents to contain multiple types of credentials for multiple authentication domains. For example, the domain of the messages sent on Ariba Supplier Network can be the Ariba SN User Id to indicate an email address, DUNS for a D-U-N-S number, or NetworkId for a pre-assigned ID.
type. (Optional) Requests to or from a marketplace identify both the marketplace and the member company in From or To Credential elements. In this case, the credential for the marketplace uses the type attribute, which is set to the value "marketplace."
Credential contains an Identity element and optionally a Shared Secret, Digital Signature, Signature Type and Signature Encoding. For the details about these elements, see the cXML User's Guide Version 1.2.