Accessing WCF service through internet.

Question

Hi ,

I have created and deployed a wcf service on iis. I am able to access the service in intranet , what else should i do to expose my service in internet??

Answer 1

There's a number of questions you need to ask yourself:

• how and where do you plan to host your service (IIS? Self-hosting)?
• what protocol / binding are you going to use? basicHttp is the easiest, but also the most limited - it doesn't support much security, no reliable sessions etc., but its interoperability with other systems is its big advantage
• or do you want to expose a REST service, so that your users will just get XML or JSON back?
• what kind of security do you need? Transport-level? Message-level?
• will you authenticate your users? How? Windows credentials? Certificates? Username/password? Not at all?
• where (what address and port) will you publicly make your service available?
• if you use a SOAP-based approach: how are potential clients going to know about this service? Do you want to make the metadata (WSDL, XSD) available online (at the xxxx?wsdl address)? Do you want to ship the explicit metadata as files to your clients? Will you create a WCF client proxy class yourself and make that assembly available for download?

Once you have all the answer, everything should be clear :-)

Marc

Answer 2

Hey mark_s tel me how u hv accessed that service over intranet pls... help me pls