Question

I’m having a simple WCF service, deployed to IIS. I used simplified configuration with BasicHttpBinding, which worked fine.

Now I wanted to add Username/Password authentication and used wsHttpBinding. In the document above it is stated:

In .NET Framework 4, the element is optional. When a service
does not define any endpoints, an endpoint for each base address and
contract implemented are added to the service. The base address is
appended to the contract name to determine the endpoint and the
binding is determined by the address scheme.

What does this mean, how am I supposed to configure the wsHttpBinding binding by address scheme?

My config looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <wsHttpBinding>
        <binding>
          <security mode="Message">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None"/>
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName"/>
          </security>
        </binding>
      </wsHttpBinding>      
    </bindings>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior> 
          <serviceCredentials>
            <userNameAuthentication userNamePasswordValidationMode="Custom" customUserNamePasswordValidatorType="SampleWebservice.CustomValidator,SampleWebservice" />
          </serviceCredentials>
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
 <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
  </system.webServer>  
</configuration>

This is Windows Server 2008, IIS 7.

It seems, the service is not picking up the wsBinding settings, as I can always see a BasicHttpBinding in the downloaded svc-file. Am I missing something?

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EDIT

I applied the changes suggested by user stevedocious to alter my web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <services>
      <service name="SampleWebservice.SampleWebservice.Sample" behaviorConfiguration="customServiceBehaviour">
        <endpoint contract="IMetadataExchange" binding="mexHttpBinding" address="mex" />
        <endpoint contract="SampleWebservice.SampleWebservice.ISample" binding="wsHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="bindingConfiguration" address="" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <bindings>
      <wsHttpBinding>
        <binding name="bindingConfiguration">
          <security mode="Message">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None"/>
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName"/>
          </security>
        </binding>
      </wsHttpBinding>      
    </bindings>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="customServiceBehaviour"> 
          <serviceCredentials>
            <userNameAuthentication userNamePasswordValidationMode="Custom" customUserNamePasswordValidatorType="SampleWebservice.CustomValidator,SampleWebservice" />
          </serviceCredentials>
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
 <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
  </system.webServer>  
</configuration>

However, the metadata can’t be exposed. Checking the service with the browser states, that my metadata publishing is currently disabled.

Answer 1

You will need to create an endpoint if you want to use anything other than the basicHttpBinding with the http/https address scheme.

In your binding definition add a name attribute

< binding name=”myWSBinding” … >

then add a bindingConfiguration and binding parameter to your endpoint definition

< endpoint binding=”wsHttpBinding” bindingCongifuration=”myWSBinding” … >