How to call WCF service from .NET 1.1

Question

Hi,

I have a WCF service which I'm trying to call from a simple .NET 1.1 client. The problem I'm having relates to the sending of "Client Credentials" to the service. In .NET 3.5 I can add the following lines so that the username and password are sent in the message (SOAP) header:

service.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "USERNAME";
service.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "PASSWORD";

How can I replicate this functionality using .NET 1.1?

Thanks in advance,

Jose

Answer 1

You cannot - WCF is a .NET 3.0 and up technology.

All you can do from .NET 1.1 is to call

• WCF services with basicHttpBinding (and basically no security)
• WCF REST services (webHttpBinding) through the browser/http stack