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In WCF, for a webHttpBinding, how do I specify credentials in the client side web.config when the server is using basic authentication?

Hello, I have two WCF RESTful services - the "general" service is public and has no security; the "admin" service I intend to use basic authentication over SSL. This is my server side web.config: <system.serviceModel> <bindings> <webHttpBinding> <binding name="general" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"> ...

WCF: SOAP output body contains tag names instead of elements

I have an object created with the xsd.exe tool that defines xml attributes in the code, but the SOAP response from my web service is returning xmlelements instead of attributes. /// <remarks/> [System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "2.0.50727.3038")] [System.SerializableAttribute()] [System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroug...

Server architecture question. (WCF+NServiceBus)

First of all i will describe current state: Server consists of several WCF services, hosted in one or several win services on diffirent machines. Service responsible for recieving data from diffirent devices. Communication with devices is implemented using sockets. Service instance mode - singleton. Data broker service - respons...

What is ServicePointManager.FindServicePoint used for?

Can someone explain what ServicePointManager.FindServicePoint is intended to be used for? I have been writing some code to work with proxies in C#, and have seen indicators that it might be useful in this respect, but can't see why or how. How is this class (ServicePointManager) or method (ServicePointManager.FindServicePoint) supposed...

WCF Service - Coding Standard - Where to put my class library?

Hi, I'm trying to implement a WCF Service in my program , howevery I don't understand something: According to the book "Programming WCF Services" , Juval Löwy 2007 O'Reilly Media,. Appendix C. - WCF Coding Standard C2 - Essential : 1. Place service code in a class library and not in any hosting EXE. I don't understand this, where sh...

MSMQ backed WCF service hosted in a windows service fails on startup

I have a WCF service hosted in a Windows service that I set to Automatic so it will start automatically when the server is brought up. The service is endpoint is MSMQ backed. When I start the service manually, everything is good. But when the service starts on bootup, I get a MSMQ exception: System.TypeInitializationException: The typ...

Serializing exceptions over WCF

I have a task running on a remote system connecting back to a server using WCF. It is very possible that the task can throw exceptions, and I'd like those exceptions to be channeled back to the server. Essentially I want to do something like this: Client: server.SendException(new UnauthorizedAccessException("Some Exception")); Server...

WCF Tracing From Code

I have all of my connections set up from my code, as opposed to using my config file. How does one go about setting up WCF Tracing on a connection built from code. I tried adding the tracing to the config file, as explained here, but it produces no logs whatsoever. I need to know either how to make it work from the config file for conne...

How to secure a 3-hop WCF facade service using certificates?

Hi, I've recently developed a WCF Facade service. I'm new to WCF and having trouble understanding the security implementation pieces. The service is as follows: An asp.net public website has a WCF client, which accesses: A WCF Facade service within a DMZ, which in turn acts as a client to access: An internal network WCF service All...

How to limit the number of instances of a WCF service in IIS?

My WCF service is instantiated multiple times until the system gets out of memory? How to set a single instance in IIS 7? My WCF service is already set to a single instance through attribute, but IIS seems to ignore this: [ServiceBehavior(InstanceContextMode = InstanceContextMode.Single, ConcurrencyMode = ConcurrencyMode.Multiple)]...

WCF - The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Basic'. The authentication header received from the server was 'Basic realm="pc"'.

Server: <system.serviceModel> <services> <service name="Service" behaviorConfiguration="md"> <!-- Service Endpoints --> <endpoint address="SslService" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="security" contract="IService"/> <host> <baseAddresses> ...

ASP.Net WCF service's Thread.CurrentPrincipal is being thrown away by some interceptor in a Federated (WIF) environment

I have a per-call WCF service that's being hosted in IIS (.svc). In the service's constructor, I set Thread.CurrentPrincipal = HttpContext.Current.User as per this article. In this case HttpContext.Current.User is of type Microsoft.IdentityModel.Claims.ClaimsPrincipal and has the claims that were sent back from my custom passive STS. Ho...

WCF endpoint binding settings don't get updated

All attempts to change configuration settings of WCF self hosted service endpoint fail: public void Start() { BasicHttpBinding binding = new BasicHttpBinding(); binding.Name = "NAVBinding"; //--------------------START editing------------------------------- TimeSpan interval = new TimeSpan(1, 50, 00); // all t...

Connecting to a WCF service in php via NetTcpBinding

I can't find a duplicate for this question, but I honestly hope I'm not the first to ask. I have a WCF service that is sitting inside my LAN. For .NET clients on my lan, NetTcpBinding is the appropriate binding. However, one of my clients is a PHP web application. Is there any way to do this? Update: I am well aware I can have multiple...

Connecting to a WCF Service in PHP that has a a NetTCP Binding and a BasicHttpBinding

I have a WCF service. It has multiple clients and three endpoints. The endpoint bindings are nettcp, wsHttp and basicHttp. If I attempt to connect to it via php'd builtin SoapClient class like so: $service = new SoapClient ("http://service.companyname.local:6666/Service/?wsdl", array( "location" => "http://service.companyname....

Calling a WCF WebService in PHP via wsHttpBinding.

I have a WCF webservice I can connect to it via basicHttp, but not wsHttp. I try to conenct to it via wshttp via the following: $service = new SoapClient ("http://service.companyname.local:6666/Service/?wsdl", array( "location" => "http://service.companyname.local:6666/Service/WCF", "trace" => true, 'soap_version' => SOAP_1...

WCF Tracing. How I can get the exact reason for closing connection?

In my WCF service, when trying transfer large data I constantly get an error: *The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly* I want to know what particular reason invokes this error, so I set up WCF Tracing and can read traces.svclog file. The problem is, that I can see in this file a lot of information ...

Is it possible to make a webHttpBinding WCF service to answer binary?

I implemented this contract [OperationContract] [WebGet(UriTemplate = "{parameter}", BodyStyle= WebMessageBodyStyle.Bare)] byte[] Operation(string parameter); But, when I called the implementation, all I got was something like this: <base64Binary xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/"&gt;dGVzdA==&lt;/base64Binary...

How to handle large file uploads via WCF?

I am looking into using WCF for a project which would require the ability for people to upload large files (64MB-1GB) to my server. How would I handle this with WCF, possibly with the ability to resume uploads. In order to handle a larger client base, I wanted to test out JSON via WCF. How would this affect the file upload? Can it be d...

How to enforce WCF transaction flow contracts with two services in the same project?

I just read a fantastic article about WCF transactions and flow. Pretty much only left me with one unanswered question: I have a single project with two service methods defined: ServiceA.svc [OperationBehavior(TransactionScopeRequired = true)] OperationA() ServiceB.svc [OperationBehavior(TransactionScopeRequired = true)] ...