Self-hosted WCF REST service and Basic authentication

Question

I\'ve created a self-hosted WCF REST service (with some extra\'s from WCF REST Starter Kit Preview 2). This is all working fine.

I\'m now trying to add Basic authenticat

Answer 1

I've found the solution based in this link and this.

The first is to override the method Validate in a class called CustomUserNameValidator wich inherits from System.IdentityModel.Selectors.UserNamePasswordValidator:

Imports System.IdentityModel.Selectors
Imports System.ServiceModel
Imports System.Net

Public Class CustomUserNameValidator
    Inherits UserNamePasswordValidator

Public Overrides Sub Validate(userName As String, password As String)
    If Nothing = userName OrElse Nothing = password Then
        Throw New ArgumentNullException()
    End If

    If Not (userName = "user" AndAlso password = "password") Then
        Dim exep As New AddressAccessDeniedException("Incorrect user or password")
        exep.Data("HttpStatusCode") = HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized
        Throw exep
    End If
End Sub
End Class

The trick was change the attribute of the exception "HttpStatusCode" to HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized

The second is create the serviceBehavior in the App.config as follows:

Finally we must to specify the configuration for the webHttpBinding and apply it to the endpoint: