After further testing, I found out that the Router does NOT need to verify
incoming messages to the Intermediary.

So my question remains, why do I get the error WSE040: Error loading

This only happens if the messages are coming in from the intermediary.
However, if I bypass the intermediary for this, the Service will respond and
that ONLY proves that the UsernameTokenManager type is derived and
configured properly.

Can someone please help with this ?

I dont really understand.

Let me explain further: This HOL applies to Exercise E of Routing Secure
Messages

1) The HOL works fine for UsernameToken that uses Windows Authentication.
Once I use a derived usernameToken manager, it fails
2) To make sure that I have done the configuration properly, I set up the
client to bypass the Router intermediary and send the message straight to
the Server >>> This works fine, which means that my config file and the
usernameToken Manager class is set up properly
3) Once I change the setting in the proxy classes to go pass the Router, an
exception happens again.

HELP : The error exception is as follows: Please do bear in mind that this
doesnt happen if the router intermediary is bypassed in this case.

 <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <soap:Body>
     <soap:Fault>
       <faultcode>soap:Server</faultcode>
       <faultstring>System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHeaderException:
Server unavailable, please try later ---&gt;
System.Configuration.ConfigurationException: WSE032: There was an error
loading the microsoft.web.services2 configuration section. ---&gt;
System.Configuration.ConfigurationException: WSE040: Type
WSE2SecureRouting.SWMUsernameTokenManager, WSE2SecureRouting could not be
loaded. Please check the configuration file.
  at System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationRecord.Evaluate(String
configKey, SectionRecord section)
  at System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationRecord.GetConfig(String
configKey, Boolean cacheResult)
  at System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationRecord.Evaluate(String
configKey, SectionRecord section)
  at System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationRecord.GetConfig(String
configKey, Boolean cacheResult)
  at System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationRecord.GetConfig(String
configKey, Boolean cacheResult)
  at System.Web.HttpContext.GetConfig(String name)
  at
System.Web.Configuration.HttpConfigurationSystemBase.System.Configuration.IC
onfigurationSystem.GetConfig(String configKey)
  at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.GetConfig(String
sectionName)
  at
Microsoft.Web.Services2.Configuration.WebServicesConfiguration.Initialize()
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
  at
Microsoft.Web.Services2.Configuration.WebServicesConfiguration.Initialize()
  at Microsoft.Web.Services2.Pipeline..ctor()
  at
Microsoft.Web.Services2.Messaging.SoapHttpRouter.CreateRequestPipeline()
  at
Microsoft.Web.Services2.Messaging.RoutingAsyncResult..ctor(SoapHttpRouter
parent, HttpContext httpContext, AsyncCallback callback, Object asyncState)
  --- End of inner exception stack trace ---</faultstring>

<faultactor>http://localhost/DotNetProj/WSE2SecureRouting/Router/1.ashx</fau
ltactor>
     </soap:Fault>
   </soap:Body>
 </soap:Envelope>

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