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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:26:32+00:00

My group builds internally hosted ASP.NET MVC websites with forms-authentication. I’d like to host

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My group builds internally hosted ASP.NET MVC websites with forms-authentication.

I’d like to host a WCF service in the same virtual directory as an ASP.NET MVC website.

My Question:

How do I make the WCF service freely
accessible, that is without
forms-authentication.

My current predicament is this:

  • I can access the .svc and see the wsdl information if I first authenticate through forms-authentication with a web browser.
  • But when I try to access the WCF service with wcfTestClient.exe, I get the following error:

Error: Cannot obtain Metadata from
http://localhost/Services/MyService.svc
If this is a Windows (R) Communication
Foundation service to which you have
access, please check that you have
enabled metadata publishing at the
specified address. For help enabling
metadata publishing, please refer to
the MSDN documentation at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=65455.WS-Metadata
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  1. Editorial Team

    Many thanks to all who tried to answer this question.

    After hours of troubleshooting this problem, I discovered that a custom authentication module was rejecting my client attempts to get the metadata. Suffice it to say, I needed to route around this logic.

    Oh – And stepping through the code is very underrated. 😉

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