forms authentication in WCF Rest Services

Question

User-1907048795 posted

How can forms authentication can be implemented in WCF Rest Services

Answer 1

User-488622176 posted

See http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/304877/WCF-REST-4-0-Authorization-with-Form-Based-Authent for a complete sample

Answer 2

User-742633084 posted

In addition to what Illeris mentioned, here is another web reference talking about using forms authentication with WCF REST service:

#REST, WCF 4, Forms Authentication, and Custom Clients (Part 1 of 3)
http://www.centrolutions.com/blog/post/2011/12/29/REST-WCF-4-Forms-Authentication-and-Custom-Clients-(Part-1-of-3).aspx

Also, the key point is that you need to have the WCF service enable ASP.NET compatiblity mode so that it can access those ASP.NET specific context data and object models. Here are some references explaining ASP.NET compatiblity mode and how it can helps for WCF HTTP/REST based service:

#WCF Services and ASP.NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa702682.aspx

#ASP.NET Compatibility Mode h
ttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/wenlong/archive/2006/01/23/516041.aspx