Wcf Basic authentication

Question

Having some trouble using basic authentication with a simple test Wcf service. I am getting an exception:

The requested service, \'http://qld-tgower/test/

Answer 1

You're not allowed to use username authentication over an unsecured connection

You can secure the message by using a secure transport (e.g. SSL) or message encryption (using certificates)

I have used ClearUsernameBinding in the past to great success, but I don't recommend it in production. I used it so that I could keep all my authentication code the same without requiring SSL in dev/test environments, but having it work with SSL by changing the configuration only.

Note: that custom binding isn't perfect, and I had to change it a bit to enable certain configuration changes.