Question

I have a web service (WCF or ASMX doesn’t matter)… I have made a Console application, right-clicked, added service referrence. So far, so good.

However, I cannot for the life of me pass ‘security’ credentials across to my service. This is my client code:

var client = new MyClient();  client.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = 'bob'; client.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = '123!!';  client.HelloWorld();  client.Close(); 

But on the server, no matter what I do (aspnetcompant mode on and off, wcf service, asmx service, custom http handlers, etc)… I can’t find ‘bob:123!!’ anywhere. Not in headers, not in HttpContext.Current.User.Identiy.Name, not in Thread.CurrentPrincipal… nothing.

What am I missing here?

Answer 1

Yes I have, and apparently if you don’t use SSL, .Net throws an exception. So apparently you can’t do what I want without SSL.