Category Security

IdentityServer4, Web API and Angular in a single ASP.NET Core project

This article shows how IdentityServer4 with Identity, a data Web API, and an Angular SPA could be setup inside a single ASP.NET Core project. The application uses the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow with reference tokens to access the API. The Angular application uses webpack to build. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNet5IdentityServerAngularImplicitFlow History: 2019-09-20: Updated ASP.NET Core 3.0, Angular […]

Full Server logout with IdentityServer4 and OpenID Connect Implicit Flow

The article shows how to fully logout from IdentityServer4 using an OpenID Connect Implicit Flow. Per design when using an access token to use protected data from a resource server, even if the client has logged out from the server, the access token can be used so long it is valid (AccessTokenLifetime) as it is […]

Secure file download using IdentityServer4, Angular2 and ASP.NET Core

This article shows how a secure file download can be implemented using Angular 2 with an OpenID Connect Implicit Flow using IdentityServer4. The resource server needs to process the access token in the query string and the NuGet package IdentityServer4.AccessTokenValidation makes it very easy to support this. The default security implementation jwtBearerHandler reads the token […]

Angular OpenID Connect Implicit Flow with IdentityServer4

This article shows how to implement an OpenID Connect Implicit Flow client in Angular. The Angular client is implemented in Typescript and uses IdentityServer4 and an ASP.NET core 2.0 resource server. The OpenID Connect specification for Implicit Flow can be found here. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNet5IdentityServerAngularImplicitFlow History: 2019-09-20: Updated ASP.NET Core 3.0, Angular 8.2.6 2018-12-05: Updated to […]

AngularJS OpenID Connect Implicit Flow with IdentityServer4

This article shows how to implement the OpenID Connect Implicit Flow using Angular. This previous blog implemented the OAuth2 Implicit Flow which is not an authentication protocol. The OpenID Connect specification for Implicit Flow can be found here. Code: VS2017 msbuild | VS2015 project.json History: 2017.03.18: Updated to angular 2.4.10, oidc client validation Full history: […]

Authorization Policies and Data Protection with IdentityServer4 in ASP.NET Core

This article shows how authorization policies can be used together with IdentityServer4. The policies are configured on the resource server and the ASP.NET Core IdentityServer4 configures the user claims to match these. The resource server is also setup to encrypt a ‘Description’ field in the SQLite database, so it cannot be read by opening the […]

OAuth2 Implicit Flow with AngularJS and ASP.NET Core 2.0 IdentityServer4

This article shows how to implement the OAuth2 Implicit Flow with an AngularJS client and IdentityServer4 hosted in ASP.NET Core 1.1. The code was built using the IdentityServer4.Samples. Thanks to everyone who helped in creating IdentityServer. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNet5IdentityServerAngularImplicitFlow History: 2017-08-15: Updated ASP.NET Core 2.0, Angular 4.3.6 Full history: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNet5IdentityServerAngularImplicitFlow#history Other posts in this series: OAuth2 […]

Web API GitHub OAuth2 Code Flow

This article demonstrates how to setup an OAuth2 code flow example using GitHub as an authorization server and a Web API service as a resource server. Thanks to Jerrie Pelser and Thinktecture for providing code and blogs which made it easy to research this and setup a working example. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebAppGitHubCodeFlow Setting up GitHub OAuth2 […]

Web API 2 Excel File Export With OAuth2 Implicit Flow

This article demonstrates how to set up a Web API 2 excel file download using OAuth2 Implicit Flow. The application requires an Authorization Server and Identity Server V2 from Thinkteckture and also the excel Media Formatter from WebApiContrib. leastprivilege.com provided a lot of blogs which helped complete this article. Thanks for those blogs. The article […]

IIS HTTPS configuration for Team development

This post a collection of information which I found all over the internet. I’m posting it as a reference for myself. I need to set up a development environment where a team of developers can develop multiple projects which use and test Web applications using HTTPS. Step 1: Create a root cert. This will be […]