Appendix . How To: Call a Web Service Using SSL

You can configure a Web service to require Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to protect sensitive data sent between the client and the service. SSL provides:

  • Message integrity. This ensures that messages are not modified while in transit.

  • Message confidentiality. This ensures that messages remain private while in transit.

This How To describes how to configure a Web service to require SSL and how to call the Web service from an ASP.NET client application by using the HTTPS protocol.

Note

The information in this How To also applies to remote objects hosted by ASP.NET and IIS (using .NET Remoting technology). For information about how to create a remote component hosted by IIS, see article Q312107, "Appendix  ...

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