How to secure a Silverlight-Enabled WCF Web Service with SSL?

Question

How do you secure a Silverlight-Enabled WCF Web Service with SSL? I have tried setting it up similar to a regular WCF service secured by SSL, but it doesn\'t seem to work. Wha

Answer 1

in the ServiceReferences.ClientConfig file of the Silverlight client app that the "Binding" tag only allows basicHttpBinding and NOT wsHttpBinding. Does this mean that you can not secure a Silverlight-Enabled WCF Service?

No, it doesn't mean that. You can have a basicHttpBinding and still assign transport-level security (HTTPS with SSL) to it. That shouldn't be a problem.

Marc

PS: Many one of those links gives you more insight and the proverbial "AHA!" :-)

• http://winterdom.com/2007/11/basichttpbindingwithtransportsecurity
• http://silverlight.net/forums/p/13275/44170.aspx
• http://kevindockx.blogspot.com/2009/02/username-authentication-with.html
• http://www.pixel73.com/blog/Default.aspx?g=posts&t=4173
• http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2008/03/19/WCF-Integration-in-Silverlight-2-Beta-1.aspx
• http://geekswithblogs.net/scottthompson/archive/2009/03/25/setting-up-ssl-between-silverlight-and-wcf-under-iis7.aspx