WCFTestClient The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Anonymous'

Question

I\'ve created one WCF service and deployed it on Server. When I browse this service it gives me positive response with ?wsdl URL. Now I\'m trying to test the service through

Answer 1

Here's what I had to do to get this working. This means:

1. Custom UserNamePasswordValidator (no need for a Windows account, SQLServer or ActiveDirectory -- your UserNamePasswordValidator could have username & password hardcoded, or read it from a text file, MySQL or whatever).
2. https
3. IIS7
4. .net 4.0

My site is managed through DotNetPanel. It has 3 security options for virtual directories:

1. Allow Anonymous Access
2. Enable Basic Authentication
3. Enable Integrated Windows Authentication

Only "Allow Anonymous Access" is needed (although, that, by itself wasn't enough).

Setting

proxy.ClientCredentials.Windows.AllowedImpersonationLevel =  System.Security.Principal.TokenImpersonationLevel.Impersonation;

Didn't make a difference in my case.

However, using this binding worked: