Question

Can I have a WCF Service Project that has both HTTP (basic http binding) and HTTPS (basic http binding) bindings? For example, I would have:

https://localhost:44303/ServiceA.svc
http://localhost:12345/ServiceB.svc

Would there be any benefit to putting them into separate service projects (and separate sites when we deploy the app)?

Answer 1

If you already have HTTP binding, you don’t need to change code to add HTTPS binding. This is a big advantage of WCF. Instead of adding a separate site, you just add a new endpoint to the configuration file.

Below is an example of configuration with both HTTP and HTTPS.
You can see that there two named bindings: notSecureBinding and secureBinding, which correspond to HTTP and HTTPS.

  <bindings>
    <basicHttpBinding>
      <binding name="notSecureBinding"
               maxBufferSize="2147483647"
               maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
        <security mode="None"/>
      </binding>
      <binding name="secureBinding"
               maxBufferSize="2147483647"
               maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
        <security mode="Transport">
          <transport clientCredentialType="None"/>
        </security>
      </binding>
    </basicHttpBinding>
  </bindings>
  <behaviors>
    <serviceBehaviors>
      <behavior name="StandardServiceBehavior">
        <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
        <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true"/>
        <serviceAuthorization principalPermissionMode="None"/>
      </behavior>
    </serviceBehaviors>
  </behaviors>
  <services>
    <service behaviorConfiguration="StandardServiceBehavior"
             name="ServiceName">
      <endpoint address=""
                binding="basicHttpBinding"
                bindingConfiguration="notSecureBinding"
                contract="Namespace.IService"/>
      <endpoint address=""
                binding="basicHttpBinding"
                bindingConfiguration="secureBinding"
                contract="Namespace.IService"/>
      <endpoint address="mex"
                binding="mexHttpBinding"
                contract="IMetadataExchange"/>
    </service>
  </services>