[SF 5.0] Consuming WCF REST services from an external .NET a

Hi,

I am trying to consume the WCF rest services exposed by Sitefinity 5.0.

I understand that in order to access the services, I need to to first get authenticated by calling  users.svc?AuthenticateUser and that will return the cookie I need to call other services such as getting News items.
Is that part right or has it changed in SF 5 ?

I have referenced the Telerik.Sitefinity.dll assembly and tried to call the service :

var usersService = new WebChannelFactory<IUsers>("UserServiceEndpoint");
var usersChannel = usersService.CreateChannel();
var auth = usersChannel.AuthenticateUser(new Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Credentials()  UserName = "admin", Password = "[PASSWORD HERE]", Persistent = true );
  
The config file contains:
<system.serviceModel>
   <extensions>
     <behaviorExtensions>
       <add name="PersistantCookieBehavior" type="Tests.PersistantCookieBehaviorExtensionElement, Tests, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" />
     </behaviorExtensions>
   </extensions>
   <behaviors>
     <endpointBehaviors>
       <behavior name="CookieBehaviorConfig">
         <PersistantCookieBehavior />
       </behavior>
     </endpointBehaviors>
   </behaviors>
 
   <bindings>
     <webHttpBinding>
       <binding name="PagesServiceBinding" maxReceivedMessageSize="1024000000" />
     </webHttpBinding>
   </bindings>
 
   <client>
     <endpoint name="UserServiceEndpoint"
               address="http://MySFSite/sitefinity/services/security/Users.svc/"
               binding="webHttpBinding"
               behaviorConfiguration="CookieBehaviorConfig"
               contract="Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Web.Services.IUsers" />
   </client>
 </system.serviceModel>

Yann,

Hi Tim,

Yann,

Can you double check that your IIS setup matches the recommended configuration? Depending on what kind of authentication you want to use, you have to configure it a little differently.

I have double checked the IIS settings and they match the recommendations.

I copied the users.svc file to the Public folder to access the authenticate operation.
However, even if i copy the received cookie to call another service such as News.svc, I keep receiving a 401 error.
I can't think of a way to access the web services using claims based authentication ( which is the default authentication method in SF 5).

I switched to Forms based authentication and i can access the services normally. ( every service is available but most need a cookie that is retrieved through a call to users/authenticate).

Can you say it so if it is not possible to access the services through an external app with Claims Based Authentication ?
If this can be done, please provide a working example. 

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