I have an 3rd party SOAP web service. I need to make a call to one of its methods. The request needs to be signed. How can I sign the request?
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I have an 3rd party SOAP web service. I need to make a call to one of its methods. The request needs to be signed. How can I sign the request?
I assume by signing you mean that you sign the message using a certificate that is installed on the client side.
Doing this is relatively easy in WCF. Assuming you are using the wsHttpBinding in the security element you have to set the mode to SecurityMode.Message. You also have to set the clientCredentialType of the message element to MessageCredentialType.Certificate.
Then, you would have to set up a endpoint behavior and configure the clientCertificate element (which is a child of the clientCredentials element) to indicate where the client certificate is stored.
Even if you aren’t using the wsHttpBinding, the configuration is pretty much the same for most of the other bindings when you want to use a client certificate to provide message-level security.
If you are making the call over HTTPS, then note that you will have to set the mode attribute on the security element to Mode.TransportWithMessageCredential.