Custom UsernameTokenManager for different webservices

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Damian - 11 Apr 2006 13:01 GMT

Hi There

Is it possible to specifiy which custom usernametokenmanager to use for
individual webservices?

I currently have some webservices that are consumed by a smartclient,
for which i use a custom usernameTokenManager to autheticated against
our uses db. This works wonderfully at the moment!
But now i have another system which needs to consume a different set of
webservices in my application but i need to authenticate against
another source.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much
Damian

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Pablo Cibraro - 11 Apr 2006 14:56 GMT

Hi Damian,

You have two workarounds to that problem,

1. You can host the set of web services in a different virtual directory
with a different configuration
2. You can use the addressing headers to determine the URL for the target
service, and use a different authentication mechanism according to that.

For example

protected override string AuthenticateToken( UsernameToken token )
{
if(SoapContext.Current.Addressing.To.Value == http://service1.asmx)
//Authenticate the user against a database
else if(SoapContext.Current.Addressing.To.Value ==
http://service2.asmx)
//Authenticate the user against windows
}

Other solution is to use the brokered authentication pattern:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/WSS
_Ch1_BrokAuthSTS.asp

Regards,
Pablo Cibraro
http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax

> Hi There
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> Thanks very much
> Damian

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