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Web Service Authentication With the WSE
These video tutorials show you how to authenticate Web service consumers through their usernames and passwords.
by Dan Wahlin

Posted April 4, 2003

Microsoft recently released the Web Services Enhancements (WSE), which opens an exciting new era in the world of Web service development. Using WS-Security classes within the WSE, you can now authenticate Web service users using X.509 certificates or username/password, digitally sign SOAP messages, and encrypt SOAP messages. In addition to these features, the WSE allows you to route Web service calls between different machines with WS-Routing and add SOAP attachments with DIME. (For more information on WSE, see Roger Jennings' FTPOnline article, "Upgrade to WSE From WSDK.")

This series of video tutorials demonstrates authenticating Web service consumers through username and password. It includes a sample web.config file with the necessary WSE entries, a sample class that implements the IPasswordProvider interface, a test proxy, and other code to show you this SOAP authentication technique. Download the code here.

Click on one of these links to play the video in the format of your choice:

Getting Started With WSE Authentication
[Flash] [Windows Media]

The IPasswordProvider Interface
[Flash] [Windows Media]

Creating the Web Service
[Flash] [Windows Media]

Creating the Web Service Client Proxy
[Flash] [Windows Media]