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Asked: 2026-05-22T20:05:34+00:00

Background So after fumbling around with wsHttpBinding on my WCF services I find out

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So after fumbling around with wsHttpBinding on my WCF services I find out that Silverlight doesnt support it!! After thinking of sending encrypted data over the wire that is decrypted on both the service and client side I figured that this might be a performance issue. Plus Im not really sure if this is the neat way to do things.

Taking for example a login page scenario for the silverlight application, I even thought that I can do the login on the aspx side and then on successful authentication I can redirect to the page that hosts the Silverlight application. The problem here is that once the xap is downloaded to the client, it can be run from a browser and thereby bypass the aspx login page altogether.

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What are my options if I want to transfer data securely between the silverlight client and the wcf service? I don’t want any data over the wire to be useful to any potential wire sniffer or anything.

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  1. Editorial Team

    As @Shiraz suggested you can go for https transport with basicHttpBinding.

    You have a variety of message level securities supported. Well it is true that basicHttpBinding doesn’t support all the message level security. But it does some.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms730294.aspx summarizes all the possible choices for basicHttpBinding.

    From the binding side, you don’t have many choices.

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