Sorry to drag up an old message like this, but I don't see a newer one on the same topic.
Are the three solutions presented still the only way of handling authenication via headers within the operation. For example, a WSDL I'm trying to build a client for has the following:
{code:xml}<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" xmlns:tns="http://ws.myWebService.net" xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" targetNamespace="http://ws.myWebService.net" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
<wsdl:types>
<s:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="http://ws.myWebService.net">
<s:element name="myOperation">
<s:complexType>
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1" name="isSecureMode" type="s:boolean" />
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>
<s:element name="myOperationResponse">
<s:complexType>
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="myOperationResult" type="s:string" />
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>
<s:element name="AuthenticationXML" type="tns:AuthenticationXML" />
<s:complexType name="AuthenticationXML">
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="User" type="s:string" />
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="Password" type="s:string" />
</s:sequence>
<s:anyAttribute />
</s:complexType>
</s:schema>
</wsdl:types>
<wsdl:message name="myOperationSoapIn">
<wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:myOperation" />
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="myOperationSoapOut">
<wsdl:part name="parameters" element="tns:myOperationResponse" />
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="myOperationAuthenticationXML">
<wsdl:part name="AuthenticationXML" element="tns:AuthenticationXML" />
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="SendDataAuthenticationXML">
<wsdl:part name="AuthenticationXML" element="tns:AuthenticationXML" />
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:portType name="myPort">
<wsdl:operation name="myOperation">
<wsdl:input message="tns:myOperationSoapIn" />
<wsdl:output message="tns:myOperationSoapOut" />
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:portType>
<wsdl:binding name="myPort12" type="tns:myPort">
<soap12:binding transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" />
<wsdl:operation name="myOperation">
<soap12:operation soapAction="myWebService:myOperation" style="document" />
<wsdl:input>
<soap12:body use="literal" />
<soap12:header message="tns:myOperationAuthenticationXML" part="AuthenticationXML" use="literal" />
</wsdl:input>
<wsdl:output>
<soap12:body use="literal" />
</wsdl:output>
</wsdl:operation>
</wsdl:binding>
<wsdl:service name="myWebServiceWS">
<wsdl:port name="myPort11" binding="tns:myPort11">
<soap:address location="https://devws.myWebService.myDomain.net/myWebServicews/myWebServicews.asmx" />
</wsdl:port>
<wsdl:port name="myPort12" binding="tns:myPort12">
<soap12:address location="https://devws.myWebService.myDomain.net/myWebServicews/myWebServicews.asmx" />
</wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>{code}
With WsConsume, I don't get the option to add Authentication elements to my methods and setting the binding properties does nothing.