Ok, if someone could shed some light on this for me, I would greatly appreciate it. So here we go. I had a rest service running fine the other day but after I accidentally overwrote the web.config all hell broke loose. I've spent the past day and a half trying to sort things out but I can't seem to figure out what is missing or misplaced.

So, I've designed this service around WCF Rest Contrib (http://wcfrestcontrib.codeplex.com)'s authentication process. Now, I can get this working fine on my localhost w/ the current web.config (minus the endpoint entry) but once I upload it to discountasp and select "basic authorization" in the ISS7 Manager, it appears that I'm getting authenticated twice! Once using my discount asp.net user/pass and then the next time using the application user/pass. Unfortunately I only provide one set of credentials and don't want to hard code my discountasp account info into the app. Like I said before, this worked fine a few days ago. Anyway. here is my web.config as it is now:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<connectionStrings>
    <add name="SQL2008_ConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=sql2k8xx.discountasp.net;Initial Catalog=SQL2008_xx;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=SQL2008_xx_user;Password=myPass"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <system.web>
    <httpRuntime maxRequestLength="204800" executionTimeout="3600"/>
    <compilation debug="true">
      <assemblies>
        <add assembly="System.Core, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/>
        <add assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
      </assemblies>
    </compilation>

    <httpModules>
      <add name="ServiceAnonymityModule" type="WcfRestContrib.Web.ServiceAnonymityModule, WcfRestContrib"/>
    </httpModules>
  </system.web>

  <system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="c#;cs;csharp" extension=".cs" warningLevel="4" type="Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089">
        <providerOption name="CompilerVersion" value="v3.5"/>
        <providerOption name="WarnAsError" value="false"/>
      </compiler>
    </compilers>
  </system.codedom>

  <system.webServer>
    <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
    <modules>
      <remove name="ServiceAnonymityModule"/>
      <add name="ServiceAnonymityModule" type="WcfRestContrib.Web.ServiceAnonymityModule, WcfRestContrib"/>
    </modules>
    <handlers>
      <remove name="WebServiceHandlerFactory-Integrated"/>
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>

  <system.diagnostics>
  <trace autoflush="true" />
  </system.diagnostics>

  <system.serviceModel>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="false">
      <baseAddressPrefixFilters>
        <add prefix="http://www.mydomain.com/myServiceBaseAddress"/>
      </baseAddressPrefixFilters>
    </serviceHostingEnvironment>
    <extensions>
      <behaviorExtensions>
        <add name="webAuthentication" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebAuthentication.ConfigurationBehaviorElement, WcfRestContrib, Version=1.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89183999a8dc93b5"/>
        <add name="errorHandler" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Configuration.ErrorHandler.BehaviorElement, WcfRestContrib, Version=1.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89183999a8dc93b5"/>
        <add name="webFormatter" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebDispatchFormatter.ConfigurationBehaviorElement, WcfRestContrib, Version=1.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89183999a8dc93b5"/>
        <add name="webErrorHandler" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Configuration.WebErrorHandler.ConfigurationBehaviorElement, WcfRestContrib, Version=1.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89183999a8dc93b5"/>
      </behaviorExtensions>
    </extensions>
    <bindings>
      <customBinding>
        <binding name="HttpStreamedRest">
          <httpTransport maxReceivedMessageSize="209715200" manualAddressing="true" />
        </binding>
        <binding name="HttpsStreamedRest">
          <httpsTransport maxReceivedMessageSize="209715200" manualAddressing="true" />
        </binding>
      </customBinding>
    </bindings>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="Rest">

          <webAuthentication
            requireSecureTransport="false"
            authenticationHandlerType="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.WebBasicAuthenticationHandler, WcfRestContrib"
            usernamePasswordValidatorType="MyLibrary.Runtime.SecurityValidator, MyLibrary"
            source="MyRESTServiceRealm"/>
          <webFormatter>
            <formatters defaultMimeType="application/xml">
              <formatter mimeTypes="application/xml,text/xml" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.Formatters.PoxDataContract, WcfRestContrib"/>
              <formatter mimeTypes="application/json" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.Formatters.DataContractJson, WcfRestContrib"/>
              <formatter mimeTypes="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" type="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.Formatters.FormUrlEncoded, WcfRestContrib"/>
            </formatters>
          </webFormatter>
          <errorHandler errorHandlerType="WcfRestContrib.ServiceModel.Web.WebErrorHandler, WcfRestContrib"/>
          <webErrorHandler
            returnRawException="true"
            logHandlerType="MyLibrary.Runtime.LogHandler, MyLibrary"
            unhandledErrorMessage="An error has occured processing your request. Please contact technical support for further assistance."/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
  </system.serviceModel>

</configuration>

So, whenever I upload this and change the ISS setting to Basic Authentication, it looks like it is trying to use the default handler for authentication as if I try to enter my web app user/pass, I get an error screen which has the following detailed information about the moduel/handler

Detailed Error Information

Module: IIS Web Core
Notification: AuthenticateRequest
Handler: svc-ISAPI-2.0
Error Code: 0x80070005

Requested URL: http://www.mydomain.com:80/MyService.../MyService.svc
Physical Path: E:\web\xxxxxx\htdocs\MyServiceBaseAddress\MyService.svc
Logon Method: Not yet determined
Logon User: Not yet determined

Now for the fun stuff... i tried providing my discountasp.net account username/password for kicks and sure enough it responded properly for any [OperationContract] which doesn't have [OperationAuthentication] defined (which is only one or two of the operations I have).

I thought this was strange, so I looked at fiddler and saw something interesting.

Whenever I try request a procedure with [OperationAuthentication] defined and provide my discountasp.net username/pass I get two different "WWW-Authenticate" headers back in Fiddler:

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="MyRESTServiceRealm"

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="www.mydomain.com"

On the other hand, if I try to access the same procedures with only my application's user/pass, I only get the site's header:

WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="www.mydomain.com"

My hypothesis is that for some reason I'm having to pass through the default "Basic Authorization" layer set by IIS before I can get to the application's "Custom Basic Authorization" layer.

After verifying this by created an identical user/pass for my service that I use for my discountasp.net account, I was able to successfully pass both layers of authentication without any issues... so I think I can conclude that this is indeed the issue. Now how do I disable the default one? Do I need to do this in the IIS Manager, or in the web.config?

Anyway, I have absolutely no idea how this is possible or what I need to do to resolve the issue, but I know that something is seriously out of whack.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.