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Digest Authentication on a WCF REST Service

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An article that explains Digest Authentication and a library to use Digest Authentication with WCF Rest and validate against any back-end.
using DigestAuthenticationOnWCF;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System;

namespace DigestAuthenticationOnWCFTest
{
   [TestFixture]
   public class DigestHeaderStringGeneratorTest
   {
      [Test]
      public void ShouldGenerateFullDigestResponseHeader()
      {
         var digestResponseHeaderGenerator = new DigestHeader();
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Realm = "MyRealm";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Domain = "www.test.com www.semanticarchitecture.net";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Nonce = "BABABABABABASD";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Opaque = "3332211VVVV";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Stale = false;
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Algoritm = DigestAlgorithm.MD5;
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Qop = DigestQop.Auth;
         string digestHeader = digestResponseHeaderGenerator.GenerateHeaderString();
         Assert.That(digestHeader,
                     Is.EqualTo(
                        "Digest realm=\"MyRealm\", domain=\"www.test.com www.semanticarchitecture.net\", nonce=\"BABABABABABASD\", opaque=\"3332211VVVV\", stale=\"false\", algorithm=\"MD5\", qop=\"auth\""));
      }

      [Test]
      public void ShouldGenerateMD5SessDigestResponseHeader()
      {
         var digestResponseHeaderGenerator = new DigestHeader();
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Realm = "MyRealm";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Domain = "www.test.com www.semanticarchitecture.net";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Nonce = "BABABABABABASD";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Opaque = "3332211VVVV";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Stale = false;
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Algoritm = DigestAlgorithm.MD5Sess;
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Qop = DigestQop.AuthInt;
         string digestHeader = digestResponseHeaderGenerator.GenerateHeaderString();
         Assert.That(digestHeader,
                     Is.EqualTo(
                        "Digest realm=\"MyRealm\", domain=\"www.test.com www.semanticarchitecture.net\", nonce=\"BABABABABABASD\", opaque=\"3332211VVVV\", stale=\"false\", algorithm=\"MD5-sess\", qop=\"auth-int\""));
      }

      [Test]
      public void ShouldGenerateDefaultDigestResponseHeader()
      {
         var digestResponseHeaderGenerator = new DigestHeader();
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Realm = "MyRealm";
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.Nonce = "BABABABABABASD";
         string digestHeader = digestResponseHeaderGenerator.GenerateHeaderString();
         Assert.That(digestHeader,
                     Is.EqualTo("Digest realm=\"MyRealm\", nonce=\"BABABABABABASD\""));
      }

      [Test]
      [ExpectedException(typeof (InvalidOperationException))]
      public void ShouldThrowExceptionWhenNotAllMandatoryFieldsAreFilled()
      {
         var digestResponseHeaderGenerator = new DigestHeader();
         digestResponseHeaderGenerator.GenerateHeaderString();
      }
   }
}

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Patrick Kalkman is a senior Software Architect with more than 20 years professional development experience. He works for SimpleTechture where he helps teams develop state of the art web applications.

Patrick enjoys writing his blog. It discusses agile software development. Patrick can be reached at patrick@simpletechture.nl.

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