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
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
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
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
For some reason Microsoft defined URI escaping twice: Uri.EscapeDataString and HttpUtility.UrlEncode seem to cover the same need. There’s another pair: Uri.EscapeUriString and HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode which again seem to be redundant with each othe… Continue reading
Download it now. Previously named DotNetOpenId in its v1.x and 2.x releases, the v3.0 release is rechristened DotNetOpenAuth to reflect its support for multiple authentication and authorization protocols. Sporting OpenID, OAuth and InfoCard support … Continue reading
DotNetOpenAuth, previously named DotNetOpenId, is getting nearer to its major 3.0 release. With beta 2, we have a security reviewed, feature complete library for .NET use of the OAuth and OpenID protocols. Although Beta 1 was very rough and was… Continue reading