OWIN Protocol Middleware, Cookies and Reference Mode Sessions: We Need Your Feedback!

OWIN Protocol Middleware, Cookies and Reference Mode Sessions: We Need Your Feedback!

As you know, development stacks implementing web sign in protocols traditionally handle sessions by tracking the content of the initial token in form of a session cookie. That is not the only way in which it could be done, and I do think it will change in the future, but for the time…

OpenID Connect and WS-Fed OWIN Components: Design Principles, Object Model and Pipeline

OpenID Connect and WS-Fed OWIN Components: Design Principles, Object Model and Pipeline

After having promised (to you and to myself) to write more in depth about the new OWIN components for OpenId Connect and WS-Federation, I am finally carving out some time to sit down and jolt down my thoughts about it. My goals for this post are to help you to understand what those…