Enable SSL development in Visual Studio 2010
Posted By Mike Bender / 24th June 2011
I recently began work on a RESTful web service using WCF 4. One of our requirements was to implement basic HTTP authentication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). This wasn’t quite as straight forward as I initially thought it might be. After some digging around I came across a wonderful extension library WcfRestContrib (https://github.com/mikeobrien/WcfRestContrib) .
Proceeding after finding this library and use of their documentation I basic auth integrated quickly into the service. At this point I ran into another issue, Visual Studio 2010′s development web server (Cassini) does not support HTTPS. After some quick searching I stumbled across a post on Scott Hanselman‘s blog Working with SSL at Development Time is easier with IISExpress. I must say, what a life saver! Scott, as usual outlined the process wonderfully and it worked perfectly.
If you are in need of SSL while developing your ASP.NET or WCF web service this is the first and last place that you need look.
Some quick links:
