Why use Soap as authenitcation in webservice?

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Published on 2010-03-25T15:53:03Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 16:03 UTC
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Hi

I am looking at this tutorial http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/authforwebservices.aspx and I am wondering what the reason for using authentication through soap is? Like why not just pass the username and password through the parameters instead?

Is it more secure to do it like the way the guy is in the tutorial verus just using passing it through as parameters?

Thanks

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