Adding service reference pops up authentication

Hi there,

I'm trying to look into accessing the Sitefinity API via services and started by creating a simple WPF app and attempting to add a service reference to the PageService. But, whenever I attempt to do that it asks me to authenticate and the credentials I provide don't work.

What is being authenticated?

having the same issue...added my project to IIS...tried to connect to a service and got this in a popup. Can't seem to put anything in it for it to bypass the popups 

"The Service 'localhost/.../users.svc' at localhost/.../ requires a username and password"

"The Service 'localhost/.../$metadata' at localhost/.../ requires a username and password."

obviously, I am missing something, not sure what.

I have the same issue with SF v5.4.

Had anyone got an answer for this?

apparently you have to manual call the wcf services and authenticate instead of adding them via service reference. I have actually found these to be a pain, cryptic, and unneeded. Instead, I fell back on the approach of using the fluent API since there wasn't a way to upload documents via the restful services.

Hello guys,

You can check out this post which discusses using claims based authenticationin calling your web services.