Security on Webservice?

[fredrik]

I want to create a webservice where the user (the one accessing the webservice) must use a username and password to access it.

Does anyone have any experience of this and how it can be done?

Thanks in advance!

[Cander]

You just call a login function thta returns wether the logon was successful or not passing the username and password as parameters. Works just like calling any other function on your client.

[nickname]

Hello..

I'm looking how to get the username from the client.

I use following code:

Dim objWinId As System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity=System.Security.Principal.WindowIdentity.GetCurrent
Dim strUserName() As String = Split(objWinId.Name, "\")
Dim sUsername As String = strUserName(1).ToLower

        Me.txtPersoon.Text = sUsername

But it only works when I run it on my developing machine. When i run it from the server it wont take the usernamen from the visitor..

any suggestions?

nickname

[mendhak]

Ah, you want the windows credentials? You should set the DefaultCredentials object's properties in that case.

[nickname]

Ah, you want the windows credentials? You should set the DefaultCredentials object's properties in that case.

and where can I conigure the DefaultCredentials object's properties?


tnx in advance

nickname

[mendhak]

webserviceclass.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

Try that.