Securing WCF services hosted on windows service

Question

Hi all,

I have created a wcf service which I have hosted it on windows service.

the service endpoint address is

http://localhost:8000/DataExchange/

I can access the service in the same machine using the same EP address or from a different pc by replacing localhost with the IP address as

http://ipaddress:8000/DataExchange/

Now when I enable https by changing the EP to

https://localhost:8000/DataExchange/

and changing mex settings and also providing ssl certificate in that port

it is accessible in the same machine but not from a different machine.

Any help is useful. Thanks in advance,

Dheena

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Dheena

Answer 1

Are you using a self-signed certificate? Maybe this is not trusted on the remote machine... This will leed to exceptions.

Check the certificate on the remote machine... if necessary add it to the trusted root store (only do this for testing!).

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Answer 2

Yes I am using self signed certificates (For testing purposes only), but I created the same certificate on remote machine using makecert and moved the CA certificate to trusted root store, but still no luck

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Dheena

Answer 3

Copy the certificate (after exporting it) from the service machine to the remote client. Do not recreate it with makecert...

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