Allow access to windows service hosted WCF services only to one ASP MVC app in Azure

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I have:

  • WCF services hosted in Windows service on my Azure virtual machine.

  • ASP MVC web app hosted in Azure App service which connects to my WCF services.

How can I make WCF services accessible only by ASP MVC app? In other words: only ASP MVC app is allowed to consume my WCF services.

Sorry for not having any code examples but WCF security is a very big topic and most examples I found cover only Windows domain WCF authorization. Nothing specific to my case.

Many thanks

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1 Answers

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I found a workaround to my problem.

In WCF proxy class derived from ClientBase<T> I overrode base constructor with user credentials in PC where my WCF services are running. 

base.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.UserName = "localhost\\myUsername";
base.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Password = "myPassword";

in WCF service app.config:

<security mode="Transport">
          <message clientCredentialType="Windows" />
</security>

So now my services require credentials from any consumer.