I’m interested to know what methods people use to secure their webservices from unauthorized web service consumers.
I’m interested to know what methods people use to secure their webservices from unauthorized
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I’m interested to know what methods people use to secure their webservices from unauthorized web service consumers.
There is a protocol specifically for web services security WS-Security. I’ve used parts of it in the past but at the time there was not a lot of support for it in .Net so it was a lot of work.
Currently with .Net I use SOAP Extension Headers. I have one web service call to authenticate and get a session token and then include that token in a SOAP header for every subsequent call, somewhat similar to this example. Of course all the request must travel over TLS to keep them from being compromised.