[Mono-list] WCF certificate security with Mono

[Atsushi Eno]

We had support for message security which is about WS-Security very 
partially, but we are not going to support it.

Atsushi Eno

> I'm trying to migrate an existing application to Mono (v2.10.2).
>
> Therefore I created a test WCF service with BasicHttpBinding and 
> message security. The client works perfectly with .NET, but when 
> running with Mono it fails.
>
> The client factory is instantiated as follows:
>
> |
> var  certificate=  new  X509Certificate2("certificate.pfx",  "password");
>
> var  binding=  new  BasicHttpBinding();
> binding.Security.Mode  =  BasicHttpSecurityMode.Message;
> binding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType  =  BasicHttpMessageCredentialType.Certificate;
>
> var  epa=  new  EndpointAddress(
>      new  Uri("http://localhost:53076/Service1.svc"  <http://localhost:53076/Service1.svc>),
>      new  X509CertificateEndpointIdentity(certificate));
>
> var  factory=  new  ChannelFactory<IService1>(binding,  epa);
> factory.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.DefaultCertificate  =  certificate;
> factory.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.Authentication.CertificateValidationMode  =  X509CertificateValidationMode.None;
> factory.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.Authentication.RevocationMode  =  X509RevocationMode.NoCheck;
> factory.Credentials.ClientCertificate.Certificate  =  certificate;
>
> var  client=  factory.CreateChannel();
> |
>
> In Mono the application fails within CreateChannel throwing the exception:
>
>     System.InvalidOperationException: The binding does not support any
>     of the channel types that the contract 'IService1' allows.
>
> I debugged into the Mono source code and found out that the problem is 
> that AsymmetricSecurityBindingElement.InitiatorTokenParameter == null.
>
> I'm new to Mono, maybe you could point me to a documentation/tutorial 
> which covers this topic.
>
>
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