Hello, I've been wrestling with getting a WSE2 enabled client installed on a Windows 2003 server. It works from other machines (not 2003) but not this one. I created a test application that consumes the same web service, instead of my production application, and I get the exception belo...more >>

I've enabled tracing on a small "hello world" web service, and it is simply not working. No file is created, no tracing occurs. What are some common reasons this might occur? I've already checked filesystem permissions, IIS permissions... I've manually modified my web.config, and also use...more >>

I've got a smart client app (C#) - client + web service. At present I am to add security features to the app using WSE 2.0. Security is a very new area for me and after 3 days of reading I'm overloaded with the info :-(((. I went through the Hands-on Lab (great, was really helpful) but the ...more >>

All, Little confused with WSE 3.0. I created a ASP.NET webservice using VS2005 but when I added the web reference in my web site I did not see any proxy files as I did in WSE 2.0. Is this hidden now or am I missing something? Thanks -- Mike Gasperino Sr. Software Developer office: 9...more >>

Where can I find a good sample of WSE 3.0 ASP WebService and an ASP.NET app that calls it using VS2005? -- Mike Gasperino Sr. Software Developer office: 919-807-2310 Helpdesk: (919)807-2300 doa.helpdesk@ncmail.net ************************************************************************...more >>

Has anyone used WSE with a commercially issued certificate from a CA ? Where do I get a CA X.509 cert from.. couldnt find any link on Verisign's site. Thanks /s...more >>

Hi, I created a web service that returns a large result set - our end-game web service implementation will use WS-Policy to force a username token to be present for user authentication so I really just need WSE for that, but... My web service for better or worse can return some large result s...more >>

Hello, I m having strange error in my web service after figuring out alot of things about policy file i came accross something stating at the following page http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wse/html/2c079234-be19-4b34-a35f-2379a074bd8e.asp There can be zero or m...more >>

Hello, can anybody please give me some URL to a tutorial explaining how to setup WS-Policy and u tilize it in Client. I came accross setting up WS-Policy but i couldn't find out how do i call web service methods then ? after setting up a WS-Policy if i call a method of webservice i always get an...more >>

I'm new to .NET programming and WSE, I'd need some help to steer me in the right direction. I have a digital certificate from a partner. They are sending a SOAP XML message to me. I need to user my client certificate to decrypt the SOAP message, parse the infomation into our system, and use...more >>

Hello, I am utterly confused about the authentication and authorization process of WSE 2.0 i've read numerious articles around on the web but i was unable to find an answer to my confusion. The thing is i've numerous method in my webservice i.e Login, GetProductPrice, SetProductPrice what i w...more >>

I want to sign a SOAP body using WSE 3.0 It looks like the algorithm chosen by default is "http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#hmac-sha1" How do I switch this to use the agorithm http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1 Any ideas/help ? I couldnt find this in the options in the WSE confi...more >>

I have a weird problem I am running into. I am using the UsernameOverCertificate turnkey scenario with WSE 3.0. I am using a CustomUsernameTokenManager class where I am overriding the AuthenticateToken method so I can do custom authentication. When I set the client to use a Policy file & in...more >>

I would be interested in hearing what others may be doing to load test WSE enabled web services. I have been searching most of the morning, and seems to have found a few options, none of which I am completely sold on yet. The first answer seems to be use Parasoft soa test. In fact, searching ...more >>

What advice or guidance is there about using the shipped WSE 3.x assembly or the WSE 2SP3 assembly in a 64bit .NET 2.0 beta 2 application? ...more >>

I have a web service using WSE 3.0. My client is using WSE 2.0. I'm having trouble with the KerberosToken. I am using KerberosToken2 with WSE 2.0, which was renamed to KerberosToken in WSE 3.0. I am getting the following error: "The signature or decryption was invalid" I created a client ...more >>

Hi Everyone, How do I prevent my UsernameToken from automatically being authenticated against a Windows account on the server? I want to retrieve the username and password from the UsernameToken in my webserice and authenticate using a database. I can't get that far. I get access denie...more >>

I have a server application which has been using WSE 2.0 and custom security tokens. We needed to change one of the asmx webservices to a SoapService. Now when the incoming security token is invalid, our SecurityTokenManager correctly throws an exception. The problem is that this exception is ...more >>

Hi I am working in WebServices (C#) and have successsfully used the WS_Security in my application. I want to know how to incorporate the WS-Addressing utility in my application. any pointer or help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance...more >>

I am hoping that someone could give me some clarity on Authentication and Authorization when it comes to WSE 3.0 and smart clients. I have subclassed IPrincipal and IIdentity. Where should I instantiate and attach my custom classes? To clarify...after I submit the username and password t...more >>

Hello, I am relatively new to using WSE and have a client application question. I read in the documentation of WSE that we have to install WSE on every client machine that needs to consume a WSE enabled Web Service. If thats true, how do I go about installing WSE on all the client (Window...more >>

Hi, I have a scenario where i need to extract a Excel sheet data from my web service. How i can do that from my web serivce. Is it possible to use OLE Automation from my web service and then the clients of my web service can get data from my Excel sheet. I have not used OLE Automation be...more >>

Hello grp: Has anyone had any luck using Certificate Services generated certs and SecureConversation? For whatever reason, I am able to use our Verisign certs with no issue but receive a bunch of different errors when attempting to use our certificate server cert. I've seen a few posts ab...more >>

I have a client that consumes a web service. When I install this client at one site, everything works OK. When I install this client at a second site, I get the following error: WSE032: There was an error loading the microsoft.web.services2 configuration section. Stacktrace: at Micros...more >>

My web service is used by the client from the different time zone (+8 hours). Client receives the error: Microsoft.Web.Services2.Security.SecurityFault: An error was discovered processing the <Security> header ---> System.Exception: Creation time in the timestamp can not be in the future. ...more >>

Hi All, The Web Service client use authentication of username and pwd under WSE 2.0. It want WSE to authenticate the UsernameToken against Active Directory. So, I provide the userId/Pwd of a windows account, but WSE returned below error: Microsoft.Web.Services2.Security.SecurityFault: The ...more >>

When encrypting a message body using WSE 2.0 and a Kerberos token, it is = quite obvious that the encryption scheme used is symmetric as the = "shared secret" is found in AD and verified in this way. However - what algorithm is actually used here, and does one have a = chance of controlling th...more >>

The application has been running for one year, and today it failed with the following message: WSE511: It is invalid to use the security token SecurityToken-e4aa51c6-848e-495e-bc7d-ec0b44c34b8f now because the token is either expired or postdated. Microsoft.Web.Services2 at Microsoft.We...more >>

Hi, I need to implement my own issuing of SCTs through a negotiation between client and server resulting in client and server agreeing on a common symmetric key. The original request will be unsigned - the trust is established through the negotiation. Is it possible to extend WSE 2.0...more >>

Hi We are in the process of implementing some WSE-enabled webservices for the first time, and are now in the process of testing. It works fine using .Net client code that has been "WSE'd" (i.e. Visual Studio generates the "Wse" suffixed web service proxys), and we can see from various logs ...more >>

hi, in the article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wse/html/9421f0df-ccdd-4d67-9e85-1d102ada287e.asp "How to: Specify the Parts of a SOAP Message That Are Signed or Encrypted" it is said: "For digital signing, WSE signs the entire contents of the <Body> el...more >>

Hi, I am trying to create a SOAP Envelop in C# . The output of the SOPA Envelop should be like this : ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <soap:Envelope xmlns:wsa=".." xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soap:Header> <wsa...more >>

I see this attribute is applied at the class level. Is there a mechanism to apply security policy at the method level to give a more granular way of determining who has access to what methods. I had a look through the samples and did not see this. Any sample code or examples would be grea...more >>

Hi there I've got an issue with installing an X.509 certificate into the Local Machine's Personal store and to grant ASP.NET access to the private key. I'm sure I'm just missing one step, since I've managed to do this before, but I'd appreciate any help anyone could offer. I've got a PFX...more >>

how a tcp server running on given uri like "soap:tcp://localhost:8080/MyReceiver" will return wsdl. In normal web service case which runs on http returns wsdl by simply appending '?wsdl' in url, but I am confused how a tcp server will do the same. plzzzzzzzzz reply :((!! thanks:) in a...more >>

Hi. Can anybody recommend a book about WS-Security. I was thinking of: Securing Web Services with WS-Security : Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption ? Henrik. ...more >>