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Asked: 2026-05-25T01:25:33+00:00

I have developed one REST WCF and would like to client will use it

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I have developed one REST WCF and would like to client will use it with basic Authentication, I have hosted this service in IIS 7.0 and disabled all authentication except Basic Authentication.

Now problem is that when call this service from any other application (in my case i am calling this from ruby command prompt) with Header “Basic bXlhZGRvbjpDcFplcUc5MzlHdDZQMEtD” although i was not able to authenticate this service.

Make it more simple , when i will access this service (.svc) from browser due to basic Authentication
it will prompt to enter username & password , so which residential i need to pass here and to which credential i need to compare (weather i need to set in web.config or IIS)??

Thanks in Advance
Arun.

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  1. Editorial Team

    For basic authentication, IIS would always try to validate the userName & Password as a windows users (either local or domain user).

    Dominick has created a Basic Http Authentication module which let’s you use other credential stores with Basic Authentication.

    http://www.leastprivilege.com/HTTPBasicAuthenticationAgainstNonWindowsAccountsInIISASPNETPart3AddingWCFSupport.aspx

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