I am implementing an api key for a basic web service I have. I am using an implementation found here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rjacobs/2010/06/14/how-to-do-api-key-verification-for-rest-services-in-net-4/ I know I have it all implemented and setup correctly on the service side but I am not sure how to pass the API key from my client. When I debug the web service upon request I don't get anything returned for my HttpRequestMessage query string. Here is code:
Web service auth manager:
public string GetAPIKey(OperationContext oc) { // get the request var request = oc.RequestContext.RequestMessage; // get HTTP request message var requestProp = (HttpRequestMessageProperty)request.Properties[HttpRequestMessageProperty.Name]; // get the actual query string NameValueCollection queryParams = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(requestProp.QueryString); // return APIKey if there, NameValueCollection returns null if not present return queryParams[APIKEY]; } Client consumption (the part that matters):
using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) { client.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/json"); client.Headers.Add("APIKey","my_generated_key"); client.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; Console.WriteLine(client.UploadString("http://my_local_host/my.svc/myCall", "POST", data)); } During debug, the web service is always getting empty queryParams in the NameValueCollection because the query string is empty. How do I add to that query string during the request made from the client?
