This post compares the security HTTP Headers used by different banks in Switzerland. securityheaders.io is used to test each of the websites. The website of each bank as well as the e-banking login was tested. securityheaders.io views the headers like any browser. The tested security headers help protect against some of the possible attacks, especially […]
This post shows how SignalR could be used to send messages between different C# console clients using Message Pack as the protocol. An ASP.NET Core web application is used to host the SignalR Hub. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalR Posts in this series History 2023-01-08 Updated Angular 15, .NET 72021-01-25 Updated Angular 11.1.0 .NET 5, ngrx implementation2020-03-21 updated […]
At the MVP Global Summit, I heard about MakeCode for the first time. The project makes it really easy for people to get a first contact, introduction with code and computer science. I got the chance to play around with the Micro:bit which has a whole range of sensors and can easily be programmed from […]
This article uses the the ASP.NET Core 2.1 MVC template and shows how to secure the CDN links using the integrity parameter. A new ASP.NET Core MVC application was created using the 2.1 template in Visual Studio. This template uses HTTPS per default and has added some of the required HTTPS headers like HSTS which […]
The article shows how an ASP.NET Core MVC application can implement security when using an API to retrieve data. The OpenID Connect Hybrid flow is used to secure the ASP.NET Core MVC application. The application uses tokens stored in a cookie. This cookie is not used to access the API. The API is protected using […]
This article shows how to use Azure AD with an Angular application implemented using the Microsoft dotnet template and the angular-auth-oidc-client npm package to implement the OpenID Implicit Flow. The Angular app uses bootstrap 4 and Angular CLI. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/dotnet-template-angular History 2019-09-23 Updated to ASP.NET Core 3.0, OIDC 10.0.8 2018-07-13 Removed static calls to the […]
This post shows how to use specific themes in an ASPNET Core STS application using IdentityServer4. For each OpenId Connect (OIDC) client, a separate theme is used. The theme is implemented using Razor, based on the examples, code from Ben Foster. Thanks for these. The themes can then be customized as required. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreIdentityServer4Persistence Setup […]
This article shows how to implement a database store for the IdentityServer4 configurations for the Client, ApiResource and IdentityResource settings using Entity Framework Core and SQLite. This could be used, if you need to create clients, or resources dynamically for the STS, or if you need to deploy the STS to multiple instances, for example […]
This article shows how SignalR could be used to send direct messages between different clients using ASP.NET Core to host the SignalR Hub and Angular to implement the clients. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreAngularSignalRSecurity Posts in this series History 2023-01-08 Updated Angular 15, .NET 72021-01-25 Updated Angular 11.1.0 .NET 5, ngrx implementation2020-03-21 updated packages, fixed Admin UI STS2019-08-18 […]
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