>Hi Viv, sorry for late response, that looks way too complicated, my service only has a couple of contracts at the moment, is there another way of achieving what I'm trying to do maybe using something other than WCF ? all I want to do is read a text file from a remote server and convert it to a JSON object on my end ( which is not a problem )

Sorry, as before, I don't see any way except implementing some type of authorization (whether it's WCF or a web based URL). But it's not that difficult :-}