Enabling secure web services WSE3

How-to
What I went through to move my existing site to Umbraco.

Chapters

• Chapter 1: Intro
• Chapter 2: Installing umbraco on our server
• Chapter 3: Writing the Membership User Control
• Chapter 4: Moving CSS, scripts and my nested masterpages
• Chapter 5: Menu scripts in XSLT
• Chapter 6: Showstopper #1 (Solved)
• Chapter 7: Enabling secure web services WSE3
• Chapter 8: Enabling HTTPS for some pages
• Chapter 9: Creating folders
• Chapter 10: Getting FormsAuthentication.RedirectToLoginPage() to work...

Enabling secure web services WSE3

To enable the Microsoft Web Service 3 (Which I require to connect to my back-end server using my ASP.NET user controls, I had to make the following additions to the web.config file (I cut the rest out for brewity)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        ...
       <section name="microsoft.web.services3" type="Microsoft.Web.Services3.Configuration.WebServicesConfiguration, Microsoft.Web.Services3, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31br3877ad344e25"/>

    </configSections>
     ...

    <system.web>
    ...       

        <authentication mode="Forms">
            <forms name="LPSEC" loginUrl="/about-us.aspx" path="/" timeout="30" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="AutoDetect" protection="All" requireSSL="true" defaultUrl="~/restricted/UserInformation.aspx" />
        </authentication>

        <webServices>
            <soapExtensionImporterTypes>
                <add type="Microsoft.Web.Services3.Description.WseExtensionImporter, Microsoft.Web.Services3, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31br3877ad344e25"/>
            </soapExtensionImporterTypes>
        </webServices>

     ...
    </system.web>
    <microsoft.web.services3>
        <policy fileName="wse3policyCache.config"/>
        <messaging>
            <mtom clientMode="On" serverMode="always"/>
        </messaging>
    </microsoft.web.services3>
</configuration>

Then, copy your "wse3policyCache.config" file to the top level umbraco folder.

Once this was done, woe and behold, my secure web services started working.

Note: At the same time I did this, I also added a secure certificate to IIS. I don't know if this is required for the WSE3 to work, but if you have problems, that might be worth investigating further.

Note: I changed the public key tokens above. Be sure to use your own, and not blindly copy and paste from here...