WCF gives an unsecured or incorrectly secured fault error

Question

I am trying to consume a remote svc web service. I created the proxy class using svcutil.exe, and after that I\'ve added that class to my console application, b

Answer 1

In my case, there are two problems that will throw this exception.

Note that, my environment uses Single Sign On (or STS if you prefer) to authenticate a user through ASP.NET MVC site. MVC site in turn makes a service call to my service endpoint by passing bearer token which it requested from STS server with Bootstrap token previously. The error I got was when I made a service call from MVC site.

1. The WCF service wasn't configured as a relying party in my SSO (or STS if you prefer).

2. Service's configuration wasn't configured properly. Particularly on audienceUris node of system.identityModel. It must exactly match the service endpoint url.

   
       
           
               
           
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