Before you begin
Why and when to perform this task
Complete the following steps to configure the client for response digital signature verification. The steps describe how to modify the extensions to indicate which parts of the response to verify.Steps for this task
Result
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.
What to do next
After you specify which message parts contain a digital signature that must be verified by the client, you must configure the client to recognize the digital signature method used to digitally sign the message. See Configuring the client for response digital signature verification: choosing the verification method for more information.Related concepts
XML digital signature
Response sender
Response receiver
Related tasks
Configuring the client security bindings using an assembly tool
Configuring the security bindings on a server acting as a client using
the administrative console
Configuring the client for response digital signature verification:
choosing the verification method