Chapter 12. WCF Security
At this point, we have learned how to develop a three-layer WCF service with LINQ to Entities. To further enhance our WCF service, in this chapter we will explore the security settings of a WCF service. We will host our HelloWorld
WCF service using the basic and the Windows authentication with the HTTPS protocol.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- WCF security components
- Hosting a WCF service with basic authentication
- Hosting the WCF service with Windows authentication