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Conditional gets in REST
According to the Http specification, any Http GET request should be idempotent and safe. In this context, these principles have the following meaning: Idempotence: One or more calls with identical requests should return the same resource representation...
Posted 06 October 2008 10:28 AM by cibrax | with no comments
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WCF - Issue with Secure Conversation in Web farms
While I was working for one of my customers, we ran into a very strange problem when they tried to deploy some WCF services in a web farm using cookie sessions (In order to enable secure conversation in this kind of scenario, cookies must be used to track...
Posted 29 July 2008 12:46 PM by cibrax | 1 comment(s)
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Streaming large content with WCF and deferred execution
I will use this post to discuss an scenario that you may run into while working with WCF, a service that returns a lot of objects (Or large data) to the client applications. This scenario is not about transferring files, that is a completely different...
Posted 10 June 2008 01:39 PM by cibrax | 3 comment(s)
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Federation Over TCP With WCF
One of the discussions that we had during the last summit with the rest of "Connected Systems" MVPs was the possibility of supporting a Federation Scenario over TCP in WCF. For many of us that scenario was possible in theory, but unfortunately no documentation...
Posted 21 April 2008 03:38 PM by cibrax | 4 comment(s)
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Authenticating users with Supporting Tokens in WCF - Binding Extension
A couple of months ago I described a useful authentication pattern for Web applications based on supporting tokens, one of features provided by WCF. After that, Dominick Baier wrote a nice and intuitive article showing this pattern in practice with real...
Posted 26 March 2008 11:59 AM by cibrax | with no comments
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Single Sign-On scenarios with Federation
Before reading this post, if you know the basic concepts and ideas behind the implementation of an STS with WCF, go ahead and jump to the next paragraph. Otherwise, I recommend you to read the following post Implementing a Secure Token Service with WCF...
Posted 11 February 2008 10:17 AM by cibrax | 1 comment(s)
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Authenticating users with Supporting Tokens in WCF
Context A web application used by a great number of users calls a Web service by sending messages across a network, sometimes through one or more intermediaries. The web service needs to identify the user logged in the web application somehow to update...
Posted 22 January 2008 10:27 AM by cibrax | 3 comment(s)
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Configuration Merge for WCF
One of the blog's readers from Italy, Fabio Cozzolino has written a interesting host for WCF that gets and merges configuration from different configuration files. You can download the code from his post , which is completely in Italian. (Anyway, the...
Posted 24 December 2007 08:26 AM by cibrax | with no comments
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WCF Dependency Injection Behavior
Many times the services are just part of a service layer interface or facade that only delegate calls to other components in lower layers, such as entity translators, business logic components, data access components or service agents that work as proxy...
Posted 13 December 2007 10:13 AM by cibrax | 9 comment(s)
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Loading the WCF configuration from different files on the client side
A common problem in WCF that many people face is the impossibility of loading the client configuration from different configuration files. This is a common scenario when the developer wants to deploy some binaries with along with an independent configuration...
Posted 19 October 2007 09:41 AM by cibrax | 14 comment(s)
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