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

To create Silverlight-Enabled WCF Web Service using SSL you have to do the following steps:

1. Create standard Silverlight-Enabled WCF Web Service using Visual Studio 2010

2. Change 3 places of webconfig.xml:

   a. In serviceMetadata change httpGetEnabled to httpsGetEnabled like this:

   b. In binding change httpTransport to httpsTransport:

   c. in endpoint change binding="mexHttpBinding" to binding="mexHttpsBinding":

3. Don't use ServiceReferences.ClientConfig. Create everything in code behind - it's easy to deploy on server:

   CustomBinding binding = new CustomBinding(new BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement(), new HttpsTransportBindingElement());         
   YourServiceReference.YourServiceClient service = new YourServiceReference.YourServiceClient (binding, new EndpointAddress(new Uri( "https:yourhostname/YourService.svc").AbsoluteUri));        
   service.YourMethodCompleted += new EventHandler(service_YourMethodCompleted );
   service.YourMethodAsync();