Random thoughts and collisions

Achievement unlocked! Most of these are in the Identity space and of course the problem is that in order to answer a question, someon...

Quite often, you can't connect to an SSL site because .NET will tell you that the certificate is invalid. This openssl command shows y...

I see this error so many times. It is generally on the client side as part of the .NET framework. The root cause of this is: Your server...

Debugging through some socket code and suddenly the debugger came up with the above when I tried to step into the .NET code. It was asking...

Busy doing some work with a SQL component. To check all was well, I set VS to break-point on all CLR exceptions and suddenly it came up wi...

I was trying to get log4net working and I wanted 3 logs: Console Text file Event log So the config. looked like: root       !--lev...

Auth0 have a neat playground where you can play around with the Lock settings. Lock is the Auth0 login component. I was trying to get s...

This is for Server 2016 (ADFS 4.0). I've been helping a customer get to the bottom of token timeouts, sessions timeouts etc. The two...

Joel Spolsky is writing a series of articles on the evolution of stackoverflow . Part of this is the treatment of newbies; in particular t...

I created the wrong folder using makecert and you can't remove it using "mmc". Then I found this post . void Main() {     ...

I've been looking at AWS Cognito and keep coming across interesting snippets of how to do things. Let's say you wanted the ADFS th...

I've blogged before about this and I normally use the SAML Tracer running under Firefox. Someone asked me about AWS Cognito and while ...