web service basic authentication client problem.

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Hi i'm using a WCF client to connect to a .NET Web Service (ASMX). The web service is protected using basic authentication, i set the username and password of the wcf client but it never works i always get a "The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'. The authentication header received from the server was 'Basic realm="localhost"'." exception. Can anyone tell me how i can solve my problem?

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Posted 16-Apr-11 19:09pm

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dan!sh 17-Apr-11 1:21am

Can you share the configuration entries for the web service? I am interested in looking at the Security.Transport part.

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Patrick Kalkman · Answer 1 · 2011-04-17T02:22:00

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Make sure that you have created an old fashioned reference using the add reference => advanced option in the add reference screen using visual studio.

Use fiddler to check if the wcf client is actually sending the WWW-authenticate information in the header.

Posted 17-Apr-11 2:22am

Patrick Kalkman

Member 7654832 · Answer 2 · 2011-04-17T03:16:00

here is my wcf client configuration:

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<system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
        <basicHttpBinding>
            <binding name="EchoSoap" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00"
                receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" allowCookies="false"
                bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
                maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
                messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
                useDefaultWebProxy="true">
                <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                    maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
                <security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
                    <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
                </security>
            </binding>
        </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client>
        <endpoint address="http://localhost/Web%20Security/Echo.asmx"
            binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="EchoSoap"
            contract="Echo.EchoSoap" name="EchoSoap" />
    </client>
</system.serviceModel>