Question

The SOAP call below works fine using my credentials but when other people use my .EXE which calls the WCF service I get a 401 denied. I am trying to find out what are the credentials being passed.

I could look at the IIS logs but am trying to do it programatically, thanks:

   public static Guid GetServerID(string serverName, string soapUrl)
    {
        Guid result;
        try
        {
            Guid vServerId = new ControllerWS.Controller
            {
                Url = soapUrl,
                Timeout = Config.SoapCallTimeOut,
                Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
            }.GetServerId(serverName);
            result = vServerId;

            //Console.WriteLine("CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials: " + CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials.ToString());
            //ICredentials Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials.GetCredential()
        }

Answer 1

It realy depends what type of authentication you are using. When windows credentials with impersonation then you can get username like this:

string userName = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name

If you are using plain username and password than those values can be stored inside request header and read like this:

MessageHeaders headers = OperationContext.Current.IncomingMessageHeaders;
string userId = headers.GetHeader<Guid>("MyKey", "MyNamespce");