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I have an asp.net web application that use FormsAuthentication. Now, the application has a WCF Service that need to use Basic Authentication.
So, I need to return the 401 status code, but everytime it’s picked up by asp.net and redirecting me to the login page.
How could I disable this feature and finally being able to throw a 401 without intervention from the FormsAuthentication module?
you can’t mix modes in a single directory.
your app uses formsauth configured in the root, which is where your users access the site.
your service needs basic auth, place it in a subdirectory and configure basic auth in a web.config for that directory.
add a
<location>tag to your root web.config to allow all users to access the service directory.that should work for you.
if any of this is not clear, let me know.