Web Services Authentication

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Justin Lazanowski - 01 Nov 2005 14:19 GMT

I have a windows app that I am writting for some field reps. This app should
download and upload specific information to a web service, and cache the
information on the local computer when they are not online.

I have this part working perfectly however, I would really like to have some
sort of authentication to access or upload the data.

The users are not logged in to a domain so no authentication token is
available. All the information I have been able to find for web services and
authentication have involved web apps as opposed to windows apps. Anyone
have any sort of information or a good source that I can find an example of
how to implement some sort of authentication?

Thanks,
Jutsin

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Joubert Nel - 03 Nov 2005 21:51 GMT

Hello Justin,

Web Services implemented using ASP.NET only support Windows and SOAP
(custom) authentication, not Forms.

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cp
conSecuringASPNETWebServices.asp

I am working on a Windows Forms app also and am consuming Web Services I
wrote and host in ASP.NET, however, I use Windows Integrated authentication.

Regards
Joubert

> I have a windows app that I am writting for some field reps. This app
> should download and upload specific information to a web service, and
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> Thanks,
> Jutsin

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Adrian Heath - 11 Nov 2005 10:46 GMT

Your best bet for implementing non-windows authentication is to use the WSE
toolkit from microsoft and implement a custom AuthenticationManager that can
check the supplied credentials

A good article on this can be found here

http://www.codeproject.com/webservices/WS-Security.asp

There are no problems using WSE with a Windows Forms client.

Hope this helps

Adrian Heath

> I have a windows app that I am writting for some field reps. This app
> should download and upload specific information to a web service, and
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
> Thanks,
> Jutsin

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