Re: Web Service and ASP.NET Forms Authentication

I was thinking of implementing a solution like the guy in this example:
http://www.code-magazine.com/articleprint.aspx?quickid=0307071&printmode=true

he is creating a custom SOAP header containing a user name and a password.
Try to take a look at the SecureCalculator class.

But I you think that your idea is better I would really appreciate your
help.

Cheers
Henrik.

"Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]" <dbaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:4580be6319a0268c831ad25b249fa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
for which solution??

I personally would go for basic auth over SSL with a custom basic auth
module in ASP.NET - i can help you implement that...

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

Hi Dominick,

I just got a link in a reply from the Compact Framework forum, which
is a discussion similar to mine:
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=325044&SiteID=1

I think that I will go for this solution:
http://www.code-magazine.com/articleprint.aspx?quickid=0307071&printmo
de=true
Again thank you for your reply.

Cheers Henrik
"Henrik Skak Pedersen" <skak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Dominick,

Again, thank you for your reply :-)

Ok, so FormsAuth is out, the same is WSE because it is not supported
on the Compact Framework. All my users are custom users and not
Windows accounts, so that leaves me with implementing my own basic
auth module. Do you have any examples of how to do that?

I guess that is supported on all three platforms?

Thanks
henrik.
"Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]"
<dbaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Henrik,
FormsAuth relies on cookies - this is very unnatural for web
services -
you would have to create a login method, the client needs a cookie
container (bit of a problem for asp.net) etc...
Well - you could use WSE3 username tokens with SSL or basic
authentication with SSL (which are both very similar)

basic auth would be against windows accounts only unless you
implement
your own basic auth module that authenticates against a custom user
store.
WSE3 has the concept of UsernameTokenManagers where you can
implement
custom authentication but has to be installed on every client
HTH

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com
Hi,

Is it possible to use ASP.NET Forms Authentication in Web Services?
or should I use WSE 3.0 UserNameTokens?

I have to call the web service from a Web App, a Windows App and a
SmartPhone app.

Thanks

Henrik Skak Pedersen





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