Axis webservices with Cookie authenticaton

Why on earth was is so hard to find out how to send a HTTP Basic Auth header, or a SSO cookie, with my Axis webservice request?

The answer, I guess, I wasn't looking in the correct place. I was looking at the Axis documentation when I should have looked at the the binding stub secret method _setProperty (with an underscore no less, so those searching for a setter bypass it completely!).

            binding.setMaintainSession(true);
// generates the basic auth header
            binding.setUsername("testuser");
            binding.setPassword("password");
// Any kind of header! from org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPConstants
            binding._setProperty(HTTPConstants.HEADER_COOKIE, 
                    "MyIdentity=testuser; path=/; domain=.montage-dmc.com;");

I've mismashed these jumble of webservices clients around through multiple namespaces, using the fantastic ant regex replace until it made me dizzy - and I'll be damned if a little authentication will stop me now!