Decoding FedAuth Token
I created a windows forms application sample that can assist with decoding to FedAuth tokens captured from tools like Fiddler, source is included. It is downloadable from this link.
Category Archives: Troubleshooting
Tracing internal traffic from .NET applications with Fiddler
Today I had an interesting situation. I had the need to see the requests and responses internal to my Asp application. Now normally one can use fiddler to see the requests and response to your application but how does one see http requests that the application might be making internally between itself and other components? After… Read More »
Keyset does not exist
The “Keyset does not exist” error occurs when a process is trying to manage the private keys of a certificate but the process does not have permission to do so.
The queue does not exist
“The queue does not exist or you do not have sufficient permissions” If you get the following error with MSMQ it might be that your MSMQ is not correctly installed or that you have not provided the correct permissions when the queues where created.
WIF Tracing \ Troubleshooting
I was having some issues today with a WS Federation implementation using a passive STS. I was logging onto the STS but when the browser redirected back to the client after a login, the client rejected the token and redirected me back to the STS again. There was no error message and after searching online… Read More »
Troubleshoot WCF Security connectivity
Sometimes it can be a real nightmare to troubleshoot for what reason an application are unable to connect to WCF services. The client simply gets a “Connection refused”, “Connection aborted” or “Timeout” message back.
WCF Connection Test Utility
I wrote this wcf connection test utility because sometimes you need to configure and troubleshoot different service setups and just need a quick utility to answer the question is the service there and can you connect to it?
WCF Service with net.tcp binding using tcp port sharing through IIS may become unresponsive
So you have decided for some reason to host your WCF services with a net.tcp binding in IIS and for some reason the services timeout, becomes unresponsive or unreachable some times? It turns out this is a known Microsoft bug and the fix can be found here.
The remote server did not satisfy the mutual authentication requirement.
Check the SPNs of the client end point inside the wcf configuration file. Make sure that the destination endpoint is defined correctly. This can be caused by requiring kerberos authentication where is it not possible. In this case make sure that allowntlm is enabled for the particular service. Keep in mind that Kerberos caches the SPN… Read More »
WCF Multi-Domain certificate bug
I was battling with the WCF services at work the other day, trying to get a our services to function on our test server that was using a multi-domain certificate. I could not get the multi domain certificate to work with message security. It kept on giving the following error message. Identity check failed for outgoing… Read More »