My service requires a Username token. It also requires a MessageSignature and EncryptedData (using said token.) Is there any way to specify what is expected in my WSDL document? If not, how will the service consumer know what token(s) are required? Thanks, -Ben -- to reply, remove .s....more >>

I have a working C# class library that acts as a soap client. It was implemented by extending the SoapClient object which gave me full control over the formatting of the soap body: public class InventoryProxy : SoapClient { ...working code goes here...} The vendor providing the web ...more >>

Any problems writing COM objects that call WSE2 enabled web services? Any recommended resources? Thanks. -Ben -- to reply, remove .s.p.a.m. from email...more >>

Hi, is there Microsoft.Web.Services2.xml help file? ...more >>

I have a WSE 2 server and an older .Net application that I extended that now acts as a WSE 2 client. Part of the original functionality of the client was that it was available to COM callers. I now want the client to impersonate the COM caller and send some soap messages to my WSE 2 server. ...more >>

I am trying to get a very simple "Hello World" type web service to work = with a client that uses the RSA WS-Secure SDK to implement the = WS-Security portion of the message. I am signing and encrypting with = X509v3 certificates, which I have tested with a regular .Net web service = client app...more >>

I have a client talking with three different web services. I want to secure the communication for only one webservice. Since the WSE tool doesn't allow me to mention endpoint uri at client side, I have manually changed the policyCache.config file from: <defaultEndpoint> <defaultOperatio...more >>

Hi I am trying to access a web service from a desktop app which is running behind an ISA Server (Windows 2003 network). The desktop app fails with the message 'The request failed with HTTP status 470: Proxy authentication required (The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfil the request. ...more >>

Hello, I've built a soap.tcp based webservice using WSE 2.0, which runs quite smoothly. When I throw an exception on the server side, the exception in propagated to the client as SoapException. If I turn "detailedErrors" on, I get the message of the original exception somewhere in the me...more >>

Does anyone know of a merge module available for WSE? ...more >>

I really need some help on this, folks. I'm having trouble wrapping my head around an SCT. I'm attempting to create a simple example of using Username Tokens and SCT's without an STS. I am verifying the username token through the UsernameToken manager on the first call to the server, and wa...more >>

Policies seem to be tied to either one endpoint ("soap.tcp://machine:6000/Service") or to the <default endpoint> (all endpoints) 1. My problem is that i have a dynamic endpoint: I allow the user to enter machine name and the port number. Then i create the endpoint from this info. At this ...more >>

Please correct me if I'm wrong in any of my assumptions below: According to the Microsoft site, WSE 1 and WSE 2 can't talk to each other. It seems that this is because WSE 1 uses WS-Routing whereas WSE 2 uses WS-Addressing. In terms of interopability between WSE in general and Indigo, Don B...more >>

Hello. im trying out the samples in WSe 2.0, but i havent managed to create and use custom certificates. the CS sample SecureConversation is working fine with the Sample Test Certificates (Client Private.pfx, Server Private.pfx, Server Public.cer). I copied SecureConversation to a new project a...more >>

Is there some way that I can retrieve the roles of my webservice in my custom UsernameTokenManager from policy? I defined all the roles in policy and I can retrieve all the roles that the person is in who is calling the webservice. Now I'd like to know which roles you have to be in to access ...more >>

Hi A web method which returns a dataset works fine when the web service it belongs to is running locally. When run on a remote server I get the following error; Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (1, 142804). ---> System.Xml.XmlException...more >>

Hello! I call, using C#, a webservice (UTF-8 encoded) that return a list of products. I get the requested objets. So far so good. But, in those objects in all String attributes I get ?? instead of chars with accents. I tried to call the same webservice in Java and Delphi and I get the right c...more >>

WS-Trust defines a syntax for performing challenges. An example: Client sends <RequestSecurityToken> Server sends <SignChallenge> Client sends <SignChallengeRespons> Server sends <RequestSecurityTokenRespons> My question is if WSE 2.0 has an implementation for the challenge/respons mechanis...more >>

Hello, All! I have a problem with signing the part of the soap body via wse 2.0. Here is the code [code] Sub Main() Dim g As New localhost.gWse() Dim reqCtx As SoapContext = g.RequestSoapContext Dim tok As New Tokens.UsernameToken(Environment.UserDomainName & "...more >>

I notice that Windows 2000 Datacenter Server isn't mentioned in the list of supported operating systems. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D3C8F18B-7BBF-489D-90E1-E8D4147205B8&displaylang=en Is this just a documentation omission, or is it true that Windows 2000 Datacen...more >>

I've read a lot of postings in here about how you have to set the <To> attribute to the url when using a tool such as TCPMon. Where/How exactly is this done? Am I supposed to do it on the client side, server side? Am I supposed to do this through the <Actor> attribute? Can someone give a n...more >>

If a message is received by an intermediary node (say a web services portal) and that message is forwarded to the utlimate receiver by the intermediary, should a new set of WS-Addressing headers be used for the conversation between the intermediary and utlimate receiver (i.e. particularly wsa:...more >>

Hi My first web service seems to be OK as I can put its url in explorer and can use the invoke button to view the returned data as xml. The problem comes when I call it form a client app using; Dim ws As New localhost.StaffWS Dim ds = ws.GetStaffDiary When the second line above is execut...more >>

Hi My web service resides at http://www.mydomain.com/staff/staffws/StaffWS.asmx. The web method itself is called GetStaffDiary(). What is the namespace I should use at the top of the web service? Thanks Regards ...more >>

What's the deal with Indigo and WSE? Will Indigo be able to talk to our WSE programs (specifically our WSE 2.0 programs). Does anyone have details on this? Thanks, -Mike ...more >>

I wrote a .net client using WSE 2.0 to talk to a web service. The client signs the request. The response signs the response. So far so good. However, i extended the service to encrypt the response. The symmetric key used to encrypt the reponse is itself encrypted using the client's x509 cert e...more >>

I'm exploring WSE 2.0 and .NET Remoting at the same time (but for different reasons!)... I read that with WSE 2.0 I can create web services to support directly a communication over TCP instead of using HTTP so it seems that now I can build a windows service to expose "web services" over TCP using...more >>

Hi, I'm just getting started with all this wse 2.0 stuff so hopefully I'm not too lost with terminology. First, I created a console app derived from SoapServer that has a soap.tcp endpoint. I then created a second console app derived from SoapClient that will connect to the SoapServer. ...more >>

Really quick question. Is WSE 2.0 supported on PDA (pocket pc) if not are there plans for this? I mean a PDA as the client, not the server!! thanks Gravy ...more >>

I have installed Visual Studio .NET 2003 and WSE 2.0, but when I right click my Project and then click on the WSE Settings 2.0... button, nothings happens. The project is a console application (.NET) in Visual C++ .NET I am trying to use it with a Web Reference to a .asmx web service. Any help ...more >>

Hi I am getting the following error when getting a dataset from a web method; Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: There is an error in XML document (1, 138437). ---> System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport connection. Any idea what it means and how...more >>

We are seeing a very frustrating intermittent problem. We are making Synchronious web service method calls from a .NET windows Service using the following syntax WebRequest.getResponse call it occasionally fails with the following error: 1) Exception Information ************************...more >>

Hello, I tried to use TCPMonitor which redirects all request from port 8080 to 80. I changed URL to http://localhost:8080/UsernameSignCodeService/UsernameSigningService.asmx in UsernameToken sample. WebService raised : Destination Unreachable ---> System.Exception: WSE816: The <To> header mu...more >>

Hi, I created a simple webservice. Now I would like to call it from an aspx page. I tried the following code, but I keep getting a remote server error. When I try to access the webservice directly (http://localhost/webserviceTest/Service1.asmx/Hello), I also get an error: Request format is ...more >>

I'm using SoapClient and SoapService classes. It's a simple chat app. i enter text in a textbox and the soapclient send it to the soapService using SendOneWay method. The message is received by the SoapService. I turned on diagnostics and I see the messages from the other machine in the Input...more >>

Hello all, I'm building a TCP web service using SoapClient/SoapService as my base proxy and WS classes, and need to stuff in a Username token on the client side. Problem is, the RequestSoapContext.Current object is null on the proxy side. Am I doing something wrong here? What do i need ...more >>

(Type your message here) -------------------------------- From: Steven joe Hi: I got a problem with this same example,why the exception:"Server unavailable, please try later",what shall I do? Thanks. ----------------------- Posted by a user from .NET 247 (http://www.dotnet247.com/) ...more >>

I tried to set up the Policy example from the Hands on Labs, and now I'm trying to set up another policy, and I keep getting stuck when it's time to select the X509 Certificate. I get through setting up the uri, adding roles just fine, and when I click "Select Certificate" nothing happens (...more >>

I've updated WSE to SP1 and noticed that you must use the msi redistributable provided. The msi installs the Microsoft.WebServices2.dll and a two publisher policies in the GAC. My question is why is it required to install the msi, which effectively kills my ability to use "xcopy" and "smart de...more >>

Hallo, I've built a Windows-Service application and want to expose its configuration interface via Webservices. My question is: Is it possible to create a HTTP Webservice (not tcp!) with WSE 2.0 SP1 that is hosted in a windows service? Additional, it would be great, if a client could obta...more >>

OK, so I'm sending hashed passwords back and forth and it's cool. I want to store the hashed password in my database, for obvious security reasons (well, obvious now that I've read about them!) What's the best way to go about putting the hashed password in for an account? I assume I shoul...more >>

Hi, I am building an application dat uses a (wse)webservice in two different scenario's: within a domein and outside a domein, somewhere over the internet. Requests to the webservice need to be authenticated. My approach: try to get a kerberos-ticket: private KerberosToken G...more >>

This is the final optional parameter to a SoapMethodAttribute that sits on top of methods you might declare in a class derived [say] from SoapService :- <SoapMethod(action as String,[SoapAction As String],[UniqueMethodName As String])> _ Public Function myMethod(ByVal reqEnv As SoapEnvelope) A...more >>

I'm trying to implement a custom username token manager, with little success. My service and client both have WSE2 enabled. This is an ASMX web service. Authentication works without the custom token, sending password in PlainText. As soon as I change it to send a hashed password, and en...more >>

In http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/SoapMSMQ.asp, the author mentions that the WSE2.0 soap.tcp transport uses the SoapDimeFormatter to format the SOAP envelope for physical transport the wire. We'd like to test a simple UNIX/C-based SOAP client application that would talk to our Windows WS...more >>

Hi, I am implementing a simple application using WSE 2.0 to communicate with another gSoap-implemented web service for inter-op test. My app uses a SoapReceiver to listen for incoming SOAP Messages from the web service. The code is like: ... EventReceiver receiver = new EventReceiver()...more >>

I have been working with WSE 2.0 for a few weeks now and it works great when I use endpoints that are completely local (soap.tcp://localhost/...). However, in my network environment I am behind a NAT router and I can't figure out how to get the client and service to communicate because WSE seems to...more >>