How can I use WCF with the basichttpbinding only , SSL and Basic Authentication in IIS?

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After some digging and asking some questions to a few colleagues, we finally solved the problem.

Important to understand is there are 2 aspects of security in this case. The IIS security and the WCF security.

IIS security: Enable SSL & enable Basic Authentication. Disable Anonymous Authentication.
(Of course, create a windows account/group and set the permissions on your application in IIS.)

WCF security: Because the binding is only a BasicHttpBinding, the service doesn’t require to valid anything. IIS is responsible for this.

The binding configuration of the service:

<bindings>
  <basicHttpBinding>
     <binding>
        <security mode="Transport">
           <transport clientCredentialType="Basic" />
        </security>
     </binding>
  </basicHttpBinding>

And finally, to resolve the first error, we deleted the mex Endpoint. This endpoint requires a HTTP binding.

Deleted:

<endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpsBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange"/>

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