Login and Identity Management Best-Practices
There are many interesting and tricky concerns surrounding user login, logout, and identity management. We’ll take a look at common and uncommon scenarios an...
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SignOutAsync and Identity Server Cookies
Handling sign-out correctly can be complicated, and the behavior of ASP.NET Core’s SignOutAsync method is not always obvious. We’ll examine one common scenar...
Persistent Login with IdentityServer4
Users expect a persistent login to “just work” as soon as they reach the website, and landing pages rely on user authentication to vary what the user sees (“...
Storing X509 Certificates in Azure Key Vault
This article demonstrates storing and retrieving X.509 certificates to Azure Key Vault. This is useful for ASP.NET Core’s Data Protection feature, as well as...
HTTPS in IdentityServer4 and ASP.NET Core 2
This post will examine how to enable SSL for localhost and how to use it with IdentityServer4 and an ASP.NET Core 2 client.
Localhost SSL and IdentityServer4 Token Certificates
Production sites should always require SSL, and developing those sites is easier if localhost supports it – ideally without those annoying browser warnings. ...
IdentityServer4 Without Entity Framework
IdentityServer4 is arguably the most popular OpenID Connect server on the .NET platform, but like ASP.NET Core Identity, if you want persistence, you either ...
Easy Configuration Sharing with Azure Key Vault
Developers using Azure for the first time often wonder how to centralize configuration data needed by multiple services. In this post, I will demonstrate a r...
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