Configure a web service w/ Anonymous Access hosted in a Windows Authentication site

2
votes

I have an application on our intranet that is configured for Anonymous Authentication that needs to consume a web service configured for Windows Authentication.

I have added the following section to the web.config file to allow anonymous access on just the web service:

<location path="services/MyApi.asmx">
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
            <allow users="?" />
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>

When I try to consume the web service from the application with anonymous access, I get the following error:

The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized.

Here is my source code for consuming the web service:

using (MyService.MyApi proxy = new MyService.MyApi())
{
    string employeeId = Session["EmpCode"].ToString();
    proxy.MyMethod(employeeId);
}

What do I need to do to resolve this error?

1
c#asp.netweb-servicesauthentication
What framework are you using? – James
Have you checked out: (msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh556235.aspx) – James
So that resources would require me to change my asmx service to WCF service? – Michael Kniskern
The next step is to see what is denying access, check this out: (blogs.msdn.com/b/david.wang/archive/2005/07/14/…) – James
Not necessarily, it is more as a reference at this point in time. But also change to reflect this: <allow users="*" /> – James

1 Answers

0
votes

change ? for * in <allow users="*" /> it will be allow an Anonymous user to the webservice