title: WCF Service to authenticate users (.NET Membership)
body: <p>I've had a look around on this subject most of the afternoon and still haven't seen a standard way of doing this.</p>
  
  <p>I'm literally wanting a WCF service that connects to a .NET Membership system to be readily available to be called by a .NET site (could be more than one, thus the service) - should be easy enough, right? So...</p>
  
  <p>.NET Site ----> WCF Service (Authenticate against .NET Membership) ----> .NET Site</p>
  
  <p>I've set my SSL up on IIS, and I'm fully aware of WCF / .NET Membership, but my issue is linking the WCF service to the client site, how they're actually aware of each other and how the WCF service recognizes the Membership service?</p>
  
  <p>I've looked at:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398990.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398990.aspx</a></p>
  
  <p>Which goes through the process of what I thought I was after - yet no connection strings are really made in that example, or any reference to the actual membership table. Further more, there's no example of how the client site is then authorised by the service.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>