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I've got a WCF service setup which I can consume and use as intendid... but only on the same machine. I'm looking to get this working over multiple computers and I'm not fussed about the security. However when I set (client side) the security to = none, I get a InvalidOperationException:

The service certificate is not provided for target 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8731/Design_Time_Addresses/WcfServiceLibrary/ManagementService/'. Specify a service certificate in ClientCredentials.

So I'm left with:

<security mode="Message"> <message clientCredentialType="None" negotiateServiceCredential="false" algorithmSuite="Default" /> </security>

But this gives me another InvalidOperationException:

The service certificate is not provided for target 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8731/Design_Time_Addresses/WcfServiceLibrary/ManagementService/'. Specify a service certificate in ClientCredentials.

Why would I have to provide a certificate if security was turned off?

UPDATED:

Server app config:

<system.serviceModel> <services> <service name="Server.WcfServiceLibrary.ManagementService" behaviorConfiguration="Server.WcfServiceLibrary.ManagementServiceBehavior"> <host> <baseAddresses> <add baseAddress = "http://localhost:8731/Design_Time_Addresses/WcfServiceLibrary/ManagementService/" /> </baseAddresses> </host> <endpoint address ="" binding="wsDualHttpBinding" contract="Server.WcfServiceLibrary.IManagementService" bindingConfiguration="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService"> <identity> <dns value="localhost"/> </identity> </endpoint> <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/> </service> </services> <bindings> <wsDualHttpBinding> <binding name="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:00:10" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" transactionFlow="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536" messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true"> <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384" maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" /> <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" /> <security mode="None" /> </binding> </wsDualHttpBinding> </bindings> <behaviors> <serviceBehaviors> <behavior name="Server.WcfServiceLibrary.ManagementServiceBehavior"> <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="True"/> <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="False" /> </behavior> </serviceBehaviors> </behaviors> </system.serviceModel>

Client app config:

<system.serviceModel> <bindings> <wsDualHttpBinding> <binding name="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService" closeTimeout="00:01:00" openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" transactionFlow="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536" messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" useDefaultWebProxy="true"> <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384" maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" /> <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" /> <security mode="None" /> </binding> </wsDualHttpBinding> </bindings> <client> <endpoint address="http://xxx:8731/Design_Time_Addresses/WcfServiceLibrary/ManagementService/" binding="wsDualHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService" contract="ServiceReference.IManagementService"> <!--name="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService">--> <identity> <dns value="localhost" /> </identity> </endpoint> </client> </system.serviceModel>

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Gives you some more info to go on!!

What's your server side and client side config?? Anything in <system.serviceModel> is of interest. What bindings are you using?

For instance: if you set the client side security to None, you have to do the same on the server side - those settings need to match!

Update:

OK, with the config, I can point certain things out:

<bindings> <wsDualHttpBinding> <binding name="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService" ......> <readerQuotas .... /> <reliableSession ordered="true" inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" /> <security mode="Message"> <message clientCredentialType="Windows" negotiateServiceCredential="true" algorithmSuite="Default" /> </security> </binding> </wsDualHttpBinding> </bindings>

Questions:

  • do you really need wsDualHttpBinding? Is that an informed choice?

  • if you don't want any security, you need to use:

    <security mode="None" />

  • you need to have this <bindings> section on both client AND server, and you need to reference that binding configuration from your endpoints:

    <endpoint address ="" binding="wsDualHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="WSDualHttpBinding_IManagementService" contract="Server.WcfServiceLibrary.ICheckoutService"> <identity> <dns value="localhost"/> </identity> </endpoint>
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Ok thanks, yes there was a reason for the dual http bindings but atm I cant remember why! Yea I was aware of the security = none. Thanks I will update if its working in 10 mins! :)
At the moment I can configure the service reference to my server but when I run I just get a timeout :( Any ideas why?
Well, a wsDualHttpBinding is a two-way binding - the server expects to have a callback contract to call back to the client. If you don't really need this - get rid of it! Try the basicHttpBinding first - that's the most basic and simplest binding. If that works, and you're need more punch, go to the wsHttpBinding (or netTcpBinding, if you're in a corporate, behind-the-firewall kind of setup)
Spanks.. It was the binding!! I've changed to wsHttp as we have that setup! Thanks ever so muchly :p

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