Http ssl service windows

And importantly, you have backup of your SSL certificate done earlier and want it restored to the new setup to protect the website traffic. To import your SSL certificate you can follow the steps below. Import your cert to the computer certificate store. Provide the password used to protect the backup private key.

Mark the key as exportable if you wish to allow exporting of the key from the store later obviously for backup purpose. Make sure the classname also changes to Calculator. Pretty basic, huh? Please copyand paste the following code in your Calculator. Now at this point we have created a simple WCFservice that has 2 methods for Addition and Subtraction. Alright now we have 2 projects in our solution. Double Click on Service1.

Then right click on design mode andselect Add Installer as shown in the figure below. This actionwill bring 2 components as shown in the following figure. ServiceModel in your WindowsService. Now open up the code editor of CalculatorService. InitializeComponent ;. Close ;. Calculator ;. Open ;. This codeis simply creating a service host for type calculator WCF service referenced inour project. First ofdouble click on ProjectInsaller. Press f4 tosee its properties if not shown by default.

Change the Account property from User to LocalService. Now Click on ServiceInstaller1 and change the following properties. ServiceName from Service1 to CalculatorService or something meaningful. StartType from Manual to Automatic. Display name from empty to Calculator Service or something meaningful. Description : A robust calculator or whatever you want. Butbefore we jump into it, we are missing some important things, "certificates"! Creating and Configuring Certificates.

Since this tutorialis about hosting a SSL service as windows service, we probably need server andclient certificates signed by a trusted certificate authority like VeriSign or Thwart. To get certificates from these authoritiesfor development or learning purpose is not only costly but time consuming tooand is not recommended. How to make client and servercertificate by using MakeCert. If you wantto reinvent the wheel you can go to these link and create your own CA, Serverand client certificates.

Otherwise you can use one of mine provided with thissolution to save your time. If you areusing the certficiates which are provided with this solution, be sure to import client and server certificates to Personal Folder.

How to import certificates to appropriate folders. Certificates Computer Name appears on thelist of selected snap-ins for the new console. Alright, nowwe have created and imported these 3 certificates. Be sure that client andserver certificates should have private key with them as shown in the followingfigure. Alright, I amgoing to configure my service based on config file as compared to write code. But you are free to choose whichever way you want to.

You are free to write your ABC or copy one from the below. Services Element:. Although you can expose anotherendpoint which is unsecure for internal connection like TCP. The services uses wsHttpBinding and which uses SecureBinding as a configuration willbe discussed below. The servicealso exposes another endpoint called mex at the address which exposes metadata i.

There isanother property called contract which is in this tutorial is a class and notan interface. Bindings Element:. You guysprobably are familiar with bindings so I am not going to discuss it in depthexcept the security element of this.

We are using TLS with Certificates and no other, username, windows etc. We need to provide a servicecertificate. Which server will present to client to prove its identity at thetime of security handshake.

Behaviors Element:. Okay, so thissection defines the behavior of the service. How should the service behave? ServiceCertificate Element:. The finding method is finding it bycertificate thumbprint whose value is 24d7acbc0accd22adf5cf4b0.

This sentence will be translated by windows as go find thecertificate in Personal Folder of Computer Account location whosethumbprint value matches 24d7acbc0accd22adf5cf4b0.

How to get certificate thumbprint:. Https only works on port Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. Asked 2 years, 9 months ago. Active 1 year, 5 months ago. Viewed 4k times. I have a windows service that hosts my wcf service.

The app. What do I need to do in order to get this http service migrated over to https. Please provide example of what needs to be modified in my app. Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Ishan Ishan 2 2 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.

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