Archive for May, 2008

I’ve posted an improvement to the Partial Authentication System originally posted at Secure Persistent ASP.NET Forms Authentication. I discovered a problem in the automatic redirection of requests back to HTTP from HTTPS using the requiresSSL=”None” setting in the authorization section. Since most sites would set this to none for their root folder, this caused a [...]

Sometimes I’ve run into the following error in the event log when using the service broker to do SQL command notifications with SQL 2005: An exception occurred while enqueueing a message in the target queue. Error: 15517, State: 1. Cannot execute as the database principal because the principal “dbo” does not exist, this type of [...]

While the ASP.NET Forms Authentication system is a great system for authentication, it has one significant shortcoming for a lot of sites. You can either only restrict it to always pass the authentication cookies in a secure manner or always pass them even if the connection is not secure. There is no intermediate method of [...]

I was having lots of trouble recently with a WCF WSHttpBinding scenario on a server. It had been working, and the only thing I had changed recently was to the base address of some of the bindings. On top of that, everything was working in my test environment. When I did trace logging on the [...]