I have been thinking for a while about what could be a good way to support brokered authentication for active REST clients. Something I did not want to do was to force the use of WS-Trust Active profile, which is in essence SOAP based. Some of the qualities attributes that are easy to reach with REST...

Continuing my post “Brokered authentication for REST active clients” , I will show today how the client code can be simplified using the new HttpClient (WCF REST Starter kit 2) and some custom http processing stages attached to its pipeline. The first thing we have to do is to implement a custom processing...