Question

basically ive followed this tutorial here

and have everything up and running and working fine off my local machine. I have deployed it in IIS and allowed necessary Firewall ports so off i go to my client PC which resides on a different domain.

I fired up the WCF Test client on this machine and typed in the URL for the WSDL and i was able to view the service calls no problem. Only thing is when i actually try to use the method and send off my values i get the following response

“The Caller Was Not Authenticated By The Service”

Weird – even though it still works locally it wont work on another machine. Is there a specific way to configure the client based on what im doing??

here is my web.config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>

  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="WCF33.Service1">
        <endpoint address ="" binding="wsHttpBinding" contract="WCF33.IService1" />
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
        <host>
          <baseAddresses>
            <add baseAddress="http://localhost:8080/WCF33/Service1/" />
          </baseAddresses>
        </host>
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior>
          <!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false before deployment -->
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
          <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
 <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
    <!--
        To browse web app root directory during debugging, set the value below to true.
        Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing web app folder information.
      -->
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true"/>
  </system.webServer>

</configuration>

The tutorial i followed passes a key in the message header and authenticates based on that but thats not the issue. I think its something to do with the wshttp binding but i do need this type of encryption.

can anyone give me any info/advice on how to resolve this please 🙂

Answer 1

Ok i now have this sorted, i had two main issues with this, this question actually ended up being my first hurdle.

With wshttpbinding i had to configure a client programatically, creating a wshttpbinding and attaching it to an instance of the service. I also had to pass windows credentials. Once i did this, the caller was authenticated message disappeared.

The next stage of the error was a application/xml error where the expected response didnt match soap 1.2 formatting. This was a strange one because for some reason even though the binding server side was wshttp, it was defaulting to basichttp on deployment. To get around this there is a mapping section in the wcf config editor where you can map protocols to a binding. In this, http is set to basichttp, simply change this to wshttp an you are good to go 🙂

hope this helps someone because these two errors seem to be everywhere with no answers at all!!