Configuring the server for request digital signature verification: choosing the verification method
To configure the server for request digital signature verification, use an assembly tool to modify the extensions and indicate which digital signature method the server will use during verification.
Before you begin
- Configuring the server security bindings using an assembly tool
- Configuring the server security bindings using the administrative console
About this task
Procedure
Results
- Click and indicate the actor information in the Actor URI field.
- Click and indicate the actor information in the Actor field.
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- Click and indicate the actor information in the Actor field.
The actor information on both the client and server must refer to the same exact string. When the actor fields on the client and server match, the request or response is acted upon instead of being forwarded downstream. The actor fields might be different when you have web services acting as a gateway to other web services. However, in all other cases, make sure that the actor information matches on the client and server. When web services are acting as a gateway and they do not have the same actor configured as the request passing through the gateway, web services do not process the message from a client. Instead, these web services send the request downstream. The downstream process that contains the correct actor string processes the request. The same situation occurs for the response. Therefore, it is important that you verify that the appropriate client and server actor fields are synchronized.