increasing the performance of wshttpbinding?

Question

My biggest concern is performance on my WCF and I know that using wshttpbinding is much slower than basichttpbinding but it is more secure since messages are encrypted.

But when I do speed performance test, there is a significant performance difference.

My responses are sometimes up to 1 mb. So my question is that, is basichttpbinding is the way to go when I need performance but not security?

I am using anyway https, so it is also secure connection, or is there anyway I can optimize the performance and reach the basichttpbinding speed by using wshttpbiding?

Thank you for your answers

Answer 1

wsHttpBinding implements WS-Security stack. This stack add security on your message, but have slow performances.

You can use a TLS channel with a client and a server certificate. You will have the same level of security as WS-Security (Authentication, Authorization, Confienditiality, and non repudiation).

I generally use customBindings, instead of basicHttpBinding or wsHttpBinding. Is is more configurable. You can convert bascHttpBinding to custom bindings with this tool : http://webservices20.cloudapp.net/.

basicHttpBinding is like a customBinding, but with predifined values, like SOAP11 for the message version.