IdentityServer4 is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET Core 2 which can be used to manage authentication for web applications. In my case I wanted to set up OAuth 2.0 authentication using a SQL backend for an API, this isn’t too tricky when you know what you’re Read more…
I’ve been getting to grips with Azure AD authentication an part of that has involved retrieving access codes for Power BI at initial login to an authenticated web application. When I finally managed to get this working I then started getting the following error. Bad Request – Request Too Long Read more…
Retrieving OAUTH2 Tokens in .NET To get access tokens from an OAUTH2 identity server you can make a standard POST request using HttpClient, the easiest way of sending the required credentials is by serializing a dictionary object of values into URL encoded content. Token Class public class Token { public Read more…
Azure Active Directory Authentication in Web Applications I’ve previously used “Individual User Accounts” authentication for authenticating users in web applications but as the management of users in the underlying SQL databases isn’t that simple it seemed that using Azure Active Directory to manage users might be a better option. The Read more…
How to get access tokens from Azure Active Directory I’ve recently been working on a project to display Azure billing information in an internal dashboard and to send out alerts if the billing exceeds a certain amount. The first problem I had with this was that although there’s GitHub projects Read more…