January 2011 Entries
When you’re working with Web SSO integration, sometimes it’s helpful to be able to decode the tokens that get passed around via the browser from the various participants in the trust – RP, STS, etc. With SAML tokens, sometimes they’re simply base64 encoded when they’re in the POST body; other times they’re part of the query string, which they end up being base64encoded, deflated, then Url encoded. I always end up putting together some simple tool that does this for me – so, this is an effort to make...
Along with the release of WebMatrix announced here.. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/web... A slew of dependencies were released as well. If you download WebMatrix, it will install these dependencies – also via a new release of the Web platform installer (3.0). You get IIS 7.5 Express for hosting the Web Matrix projects as well. And, to top it off – the Microsoft Web Deploy 2.0 tool… The ASP.NET updates include the Visual Studio 2010 tools updates,...
There’s no doubt that certificate management, when you haven’t futzed with it for some time, is a fun time… Raffaele Rialdi has the start of what looks like a promising tool to help manage the process of managing and deploying certificates for services (WCF) and a bunch of other tasks. http://www.iamraf.net/Tools...
I spent way too many hours on this one. I was going through full configuration of ADFS v2 with WCF active client scenarios and using self generated certificates, had all things lined up perfectly. Using the certificate snap in I just copied the thumbprint into the IdentityModel section (trusted issuers) in my service config. var one = "ecb8fd950978d94ae21d4f073... var two = "ecb8fd950978d94ae21d4f0732... What ended up is in the first, there’s a buried nonprintable series...