Asp.Net web service: I would like to return error 403 forbidden

Question

I have got a web service programmed in c# / asp.net.

[WebService(Namespace = \"http://example.com/\")]
[WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProf         


        

Answer 1

The return Forbid(); creates a ForbidResult (Status403Forbidden by default).

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.aspnetcore.mvc.controllerbase.forbid?view=aspnetcore-3.1

Answer 2

Context.Response.StatusCode = 403;

Answer 3

Forbidden 403 would be a result of access to forbidden content on your website. I think what you want here is to return a message as part of your Result that is "User is not logged on"

Answer 4

Your web service requests will first encounter your global.asax file. You can check & return there.

Answer 5

You don't need to set both Context.Response.Status and Context.Response.StatusCode. Simply setting

Context.Response.StatusCode = (int)System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Forbidden

will automatically set Response.Status for you.

Answer 6

You can protect all your methods by placing the code in your WebService constructor. This prevents your WebMethod from even being called:

public Service(): base()
{
    if (!GetUser().LoggedIn)
    {
        Context.Response.StatusCode = (int)System.Net.HttpStatusCode.Forbidden;
        Context.Response.End();
    }
}