Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Web Services Authentication

Web services are hailed as one of the most important recent communication standards. Web services allow users to easily create and consume applications remotely using regular HTTP channels without any hindrance from firewalls. There are three general approaches to creating secure Web services: HTTP security mechanism, custom SOAP-based security schemas, or WS-security.

HTTP (Transport) Security

This method lets you implement familiar authentication methods available from the combination of IIS and ASP.NET. Basic, Digest, and Certificate authentication options are available. This mode is often used when you can control both channel and platform configurations on both ends, typically in an intranet scenario. This mechanism ...