security on wcf Rest Service

Question

User-1799376286 posted

I have wcf Rest Service on https and cross domain enabled. How do i implement basic-authentication to make it secure?

Or any other way of making it secure as currently anybody knows the error can make the call made.

Answer 1

User281315223 posted

This related Stack Overflow question on security REST Services in WCF may be helpful to you. It features several different blog posts, videos and other tutorials related to implementing very basic username / password authentication.

Another resource mentioned that sounds like it might be quite useful would be the CustomBasicAuthentication Module for IIS that can easily integrate Basic Authentication into WCF Services and much more.

Here are a few other resources that may be helpful for you : 

• Creating and Securing WCF Services over HTTPS and SSL
• Securing WCF Services using OAUTH
• Implementing Basic Authentication for WCF Services

Answer 2

User-1195500931 posted

Hi,

Please have a look into this post and let me know where I am wrong.

http://forums.asp.net/p/1922992/5456050.aspx/1?setRequestHeader+from+jQuery+ajax+for+authorization+is+not+adding+request+header+to+wcf+call

Thanks