WCFTestClient The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme ‘Anonymous’

I didn’t have control over the security configuration for the service I was calling into, but got the same error. I was able to fix my client as follows. In the config, set up the security mode:<security mode=”TransportCredentialOnly”> <transport clientCredentialType=”Windows” proxyCredentialType=”None” realm=”” /> <message clientCredentialType=”UserName” algorithmSuite=”Default” /> </security> In the code, set the proxy class … Read more

WCFTestClient The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme ‘Anonymous’

I didn’t have control over the security configuration for the service I was calling into, but got the same error. I was able to fix my client as follows. In the config, set up the security mode:<security mode=”TransportCredentialOnly”> <transport clientCredentialType=”Windows” proxyCredentialType=”None” realm=”” /> <message clientCredentialType=”UserName” algorithmSuite=”Default” /> </security> In the code, set the proxy class … Read more

What is w3wp.exe?

An Internet Information Services (IIS) worker process is a windows process (w3wp.exe) which runs Web applications, and is responsible for handling requests sent to a Web Server for a specific application pool. It is the worker process for IIS. Each application pool creates at least one instance of w3wp.exe and that is what actually processes requests in … Read more