Hello Robert,

i never used WCF but in web applications when this mistake happen is because
someone forget put in the web.config this key

 <customErrors mode="Off"></customErrors>

the position for this tag is

<system.web>
  ..
  ..
  ..
  <customErrors mode="Off"></customErrors>
</system.web>

cheers


2011/1/24 Robert M. <[email protected]>

> I am trying to implement custom basic authentication for a WCF service
> using my own custom credentials validator. My first attempt was to create
> a IServiceBehavior behaviour and register it with the container. The service
> behaviour registered my BasicAuthenticationInspector
> (implementing IDispatchMessageInspector) as message inspector for all
> endpoints. In BasicAuthenticationInspector, I overrode  AfterReceiveRequest
> and tried to perform credentials validation from there:
>
> public object AfterReceiveRequest(ref Message request, IClientChannel
> channel, InstanceContext instanceContext)
> {
>     var authentication = new BasicAuthentication(MessageProperty.Headers);
>     if (!authentication.Authenticate(new
> CustomUsernamePasswordValidator()))
>         throw new BasicUnauthorizedException("My Realm");
>
>     var identity = new GenericIdentity(authentication.Username);
>     OperationContext.Current.SetupSecurityContext(new
> IdentityAuthorizationPolicy(identity));
>     return null;
> }
>
>
> Everything works if the request contains valid credentials, but
> when BasicUnauthorizedException is thrown the exception is not caught by the
> global IErrorHandler in order to be translated into a Unauthorized http
> status code. The caller receives a 500 error, instead. It seems that
> IErrorHandler implementor is not called due to the fact that message
> inspectors are ran too early in request lifecycle and further processing is
> not done anymore in case of an exception.
>
> WCFFacility is a real asset here due to the way it applies behaviours and I
> would like to leverage a solution based on it.
>
> My question would be if you can think of a better place where to hook in
> WCF processing pipeline and perform my custom basic authentication or if you
> know a working example somewhere using the wcf facility?
>
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