Synopsis: Understanding exactly what is happening under the hood when it comes to working with OpenID and OAuth can be challenging even for the seasoned IDM developer. What I have found to help, is being able to see the communications between all the p… Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth has just seen a minor release to v3.4.3. Fixes center around corner case interoperability issues that cause a very small percentage (<0.5%) of OpenID users to be unable to log into your relying party web sites. A few other random … Continue reading
You can go download DotNetOpenAuth v3.4 today. Highlights of the new version include: Support for Google Apps for Domains issued OpenIDs. This required special work since Google has their own flavor of OpenID discovery that had to be supported … Continue reading
ExtremeSwankOpenID and ExtremeSwankOAuth, both libraries authored by John Ehn, have been discontinued according to the project sites respective home pages which have a new note that reads: “Note: This … Consumer is no longer in development.” Ext… Continue reading
It’s been nearly six months since v3.2 was released. So what’s in v3.3 that took so long to bake? Well, a lot of it was waiting for and getting used to Code Contracts to mature enough to bet on the technology. The most exciting changes thou… Continue reading
I finally built a project template to make it easier to write an OpenID relying party web site using C# and ASP.NET. Up to this point all we had were the sample RPs that ship with DotNetOpenAuth, which were deliberately kept simple. They didn’t u… Continue reading
I’m finally making progress on building a set of HTML and javascript files that can be used on any OpenID relying party web site to allow visitors to easily log in with OpenID, without even knowing what OpenID is. I mentioned my goal to do this som… Continue reading
In a previous article, I bemoan the pain of writing an OpenID Relying Party that wants to fetch user attributes from their OpenID Provider, because of the at least 4 ways in which those attributes must be requested. And then later I promised that Dot… Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth v3.2 just came off the presses. Lots of feature work and a few interop fixes in this release. The biggest highlights being: Very simple story for both RPs and OPs interested in interoperating with others whether they use sreg or… Continue reading
Just to get your mouth watering for DotNetOpenAuth v3.2… V3.2 has a new “behaviors” plugin capability that lets RPs and OPs get additional functionality with very little effort. For example, OPs can add PPID identifier support very easily with jus… Continue reading
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