Question

Masters,

I am new to WCF but aware about Web API’s [Authorize] attribute.
Same i want to duplicate for WCF REST basic authentication service, Expecting as the security header will pass in every subsequent request once authenticated.

We target to make Restful service using webHttpBinding. Please provide any relevant example to achieve this. Also we target to run same on Https then.

Things seems much simpler in Web API but not in WCF.
I googled and get some answers like
Something like an operation filter in WCF REST?

Can anybody give me simpler way to achieve this very straight forward as we do in Web API.

Thanks.

Answer 1

There’s some nice article and projects for activating authentication in WCF:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pedram/archive/2007/10/05/wcf-authentication-custom-username-and-password-validator.aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/36289/8-steps-to-enable-windows-authentication-on-WCF-Ba

And then: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398990.aspx

Edit:
See this article: Custom Basic Authentication for RESTful services

Hope helps.