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Connecting to an OAuth 2.0 protected OData Service

January 21, 2011 Jan 21, 2011 01/21/11

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This post creates a Windows Phone 7 client application for the OAuth 2.0 protected OData service we created in the last post. Prerequisites: To run this code you will need: Our application: Our application is a very basic Windows Phone 7 (WP7) application that allows you to browse favorites and if logged in create new ...

OData and OAuth – protecting an OData Service using OAuth 2.0

January 20, 2011 Jan 20, 2011 01/20/11

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In this post you will learn how to create an OData service that is protected using OAuth 2.0, which is the OData team’s official recommendation in these scenarios: So if your scenarios is one of the above or some slight variation we recommend that you use OAuth 2.0 to protect your service, it provides the utmost ...

OData and Authentication – Part 8 – OAuth WRAP

August 19, 2010 Aug 19, 2010 08/19/10

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OAuth WRAP is a claims based authentication protocol supported by the AppFabric Access Control (ACS) which is part of Windows Azure. But most importantly it is REST (and thus OData) friendly too. The idea is that you authenticate against an ACS server and acquire a Simple Web Token or SWT – which contains signed claims about identity / ...

OData and Authentication – Part 7 – Forms Authentication

July 21, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 07/21/10

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Our goal in this post is to re-use the Forms Authentication already in a website to secure a new Data Service. To bootstrap this we need a website that uses Forms Auth. Turns out the MVC Music Store Sample is perfect for our purposes because: The rest of this post assumes you’ve downloaded and installed the MVC ...

OData and Authentication – Part 6 – Custom Basic Authentication

July 21, 2010 Jul 21, 2010 07/21/10

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You might remember, from Part 5, that Basic Authentication is built-in to IIS. So why do we need ‘Custom’ Basic Authentication? Well if you are happy using windows users and passwords you don’t. That’s because the built-in Basic Authentication, uses the Basic Authentication protocol, to authenticate against the windows ...

OData and Authentication – Part 5 – Custom HttpModules

July 19, 2010 Jul 19, 2010 07/19/10

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In the last post we saw how to add custom authentication inside your Data Service using the ProcessingRequest event. Unfortunately that approach means authentication is not integrated or shared with the rest of your website. Which means for all but the simplest scenarios a better approach is needed: HttpModules. HttpModules can do all sort of ...

OData and Authentication – Part 4 – Server Side Hooks

July 19, 2010 Jul 19, 2010 07/19/10

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If you secure an OData Service using Windows authentication – see Part 2 to learn how – everything works as expected out of the box. What however if you need a different authentication scheme? Well the answer as always depends upon your scenario. Broadly speaking what you need to do depends upon how your Data Service is hosted...

OData and Authentication – Part 3 – ClientSide Hooks

May 24, 2010 May 24, 2010 05/24/10

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So far in this series we’ve looked at Windows Authentication. For both Windows and Basic Authentication, Data Services does the authentication handshake and subsequent sending of authentication headers – all without you directly setting a http header. It can do this because there is a higher level abstraction – the ...

OData and Authentication – Part 2 – Windows Authentication

May 10, 2010 May 10, 2010 05/10/10

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Imagine you have an OData Service installed on your domain somewhere, probably using the .NET Data Services producer libraries, and you want to authenticate clients against your corporate active directory. How do you do this? On the Serverside First on the IIS box hosting your Data Service you need to turn on integrated security, and you ...

OData and Authentication – Part 1

May 10, 2010 May 10, 2010 05/10/10

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Here on the Data Services team we hear many people ask about authentication. Questions like: The answer to these questions, depends a lot upon scenario, in fact each authentication scenario presents unique challenges: As you can see lots of questions. And there is a real risk that people will get their answer ...

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