Monthly Archives: September 2009

Restful Token Service Endpoints and Silverlight Clients

It turns out that there is no way in Silverlight to send credentials using the standard HTTP Authorize header (see here). WTF?!. You have to use a custom HTTP header to transmit credentials in this case, e.g. X-Authorize (nice?). I … Continue reading

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StarterSTS Version 0.93

I just uploaded a minor update. refactored ScopeOptions to PolicyOptions and added a PolicyScope class CertificateProvider class abstracts physical loading of relying party encryption certificates /users/restIssue.svc is a Restful token issuance endpoint – you can use a simple GET to … Continue reading

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Adding a REST Endpoint to a WIF Token Service

Sometimes it is useful to have a really simple way to acquire a token from a token service – without having to fiddle around with WS-Federation or WS-Trust. Issuing a simple GET request against a token issuance endpoint seems to … Continue reading

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StarterSTS Version 0.92

I have an update to the StarterSTS up on codeplex. There is also a new screencast that details the changes from the last version. Have fun!

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