I've got a web application that uses a customized version of Forms authentication. However, as part of that web app, I have a web service that I want clients to be able to consume, and I'd like that web service to use Basic authentication. To complicate matters, I'd like the service to be usable anonymously (without any authentication), and make the "basic" authentication "optional" (wherein the web service would check for the existence of the authentication information and return modified results acordingly.)
Ideally, I'd like it to be just this one web service, or perhaps a single specific directory that partakes in this mechanism.
Anyone have any tips as to how I can do this? Thanks a ton for any advice anyone might have...
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