Configure WCF for WS-Security with Username over https

Question

I'm trying to call a Java based, WS-Security enabled web service over https using a WCF client and can't seem to get the security configuration right. Using SvcTraceViewer, I don't see the expected security header with any of the security configurations I have tried.

My most recent security configuration is:

    <wsHttpBinding>
        <binding name="MySoapBinding" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
            openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
            allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
            maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
            messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8"
            useDefaultWebProxy="true">
            <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
                maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
          <security mode="TransportWithMessageCredential">
            <transport/>
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName" negotiateServiceCredential="false" establishSecurityContext="false"/>
          </security>
        </binding>
    </wsHttpBinding>

and I set the username/password in code like this:

    svc.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = TestBase.userName;
    svc.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = TestBase.password;

The Java web service expects a security header like this:

<wsse:Security soap:mustUnderstand="1">
<wsu:Timestamp wsu:Id="Timestamp-bf41c571-7d32-438c-937e-7d83a3ac2d14">
<wsu:Created>2010-12-27T16:43:16Z</wsu:Created>
<wsu:Expires>2010-12-27T16:48:16Z</wsu:Expires>
</wsu:Timestamp>
<wsse:UsernameToken xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" wsu:Id="SecurityToken-4c9b30b1-d697-4c64-89cb-a6d7e857aebf">
<wsse:Username>MyUserName</wsse:Username>
<wsse:Password Type="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0#PasswordText">MyPassword</wsse:Password>
<wsse:Nonce>pzLdD4S+OCDG6Ut9Ur1oOQ==</wsse:Nonce>
<wsu:Created>2010-12-27T16:43:16Z</wsu:Created>
</wsse:UsernameToken>
</wsse:Security>

I see no Security header at all.

I have read quite a bit online about transport vs. message level security and security modes, but can't seem to find the right set of options. How should I configure my binding for

• https communication
• Username/passowrd in the SOAP header, in plain text (WS-Security)
• Timestamp required
• Nonce required

Answer 1

Turns out Rick Strahl had almost exactly the same issue. It turns out that SvcTraceViewer does not show the actual on-the-wire message. However, his blog outlines a procedure to proxy through Charles (or in my case Fiddler 2, which is free) to see the actual message.

It turns out that I'm sending a Timestamp element as required by the web service I'm calling, but if I do, WCF demands a Timestamp in the response (which I'm not getting). The error message is quite misleading. Fortunately I can have the service changed to return a Timestamp.

http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/205198.aspx