Return 401 from WCF service

http wcf http-status-code-401
Nevin Mathai picture Nevin Mathai · Dec 28, 2009 · Viewed 9.4k times · Source

How can I return a HTTP 401 from a WCF service?

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Jochen picture Jochen · Dec 28, 2009

If you are programming a REST-service it can be done this way:

private IWebOperationContext context = new WebOperationContextWrapper(WebOperationContext.Current); // Get the context

context.OutgoingResponse.StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized; // Set the 401

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