Access control of HTTP addresses in Vista

Vista has namespace reservations to control the set up of HTTP listening ports. By default, a user does not have access to listen to arbitrary HTTP ports e.g. using wsHttpBinding in WCF.

To show the access control for all ports, use command:

• netsh http show urlacl

To grant user Tony access to port 8000, do:

• netsh http add urlacl url=http://+:8000/ user=Tony

Update: there is a deployment tool for WCF that includes this step.