Archives for June 2008

Security and Http

I did some experimentation today with authentication over http.
Using the System.Net.WebClient class I made requests against both a HttpListener based server and WCF service contract using webHttpBinding.
With HttpListener I can get Basic authentication and WindowsIntegratedAuthentication working just fine.  With WebHttpBinding I cannot get either.  I am aware that with WebHttpBinding over https you can do [...]

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Programming Twitter without WCF 3.5

Via Twitter I came across this post showing how easy it is to interface with Twitter using WCF 3.5. 
Dariusz hypothesizes that it would be cool to do
1: TwitterStatusProxy proxy = new TwitterStatusProxy( “username”, “password” );
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3: // retrieve friends timeline
4: XElement [...]

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