Uri.AbsoluteUri and Uri.ToString() are NOT the same
If you’re familiar with the System.Uri class you know that it has a couple of ways of becoming a string for purposes of communication: its AbsoluteUri property and its ToString()…
DotNetOpenId 2.1.0 released, adds Attribute Exchange support
DotNetOpenId had a double release tonight. Version 2.0.1 is a maintenance release with a few minor bug fixes. Version 2.1 adds built-in support for the Attribute Exchange extension, but introduces…
Enhancing the ASP.NET MVC OpenID login experience
In a previous post, I present an example of how to accept OpenIDs for logins on your ASP.NET MVC site. To keep the sample simple, I left out a feature…
Why DotNetOpenID as your C# OpenID library of choice
In choosing an implementation of OpenID for your .NET web site, of course I would have to recommend DotNetOpenId, seeing as I spend a considerable amount of my spare time…
How to add OpenID to your ASP.NET web site (in C# or VB.NET)
Adding OpenID support to your VB.NET web site couldn’t be easier. Here is the easiest way: Download the DotNetOpenId library. Extract the DotNetOpenId.dll from the bin directory of the .zip…
Add OpenID login support to your ASP.NET MVC site
While this post assumes a C# web site, the steps will work for VB.NET just as well, but the syntax of the glue code will have to be adjusted slightly.…
An argument for the extra dependency of a library
Lately there has been some blogging activity around C# implementations of OpenID that are "so small you can just host the source code as a single class your web site." …
C# OpenID library DotNetOpenID 2.0 released
The open source OpenID C# library DotNetOpenID has been released. This is a really exciting release that adds full support for OpenID 2.0 while preserving full backward compatibility for interoperating…
DotNetOpenId 2.0 Beta 2 has been released
New since v2.0 beta 1: Providers can send unsolicited assertions Providers can detect and respond to directed identity (identifier_select) requests from relying parties. Completely stateless relying party support (not even…
OpenID 2.0 nonces and ASP.NET HttpRequestValidationException
The OpenId Authentication 2.0 spec’s section on nonces allows for nonces to be made up of any and all ASCII characters in the range of 33-126 inclusive. This includes the…