Web service request authentication

Question

We\'re being really stuck here so I decided to ask your help.

Yesterday I\'ve been asked to help to consume a web service, got the URL to the WSDL, and the user cred

Answer 1

I've achieved similar, using a regular HttpCookie.

To create the cookie:

[OperationContract]     
public void LoginToApi(string username, string password, string clientName)
{
// authenticate with DB, if successful ...
// construct a cookie
    HttpCookie httpCookie = new HttpCookie("SessionID","whateverneeded");
    HttpContext.Current.Response.SetCookie(httpCookie);
}

This appears in your regular HttpRequests, too. So you just reverse the process, checking the hash/session ID/username/password whatever you put in the cookie on receipt before doing anything.