Every OWIN application has a startup class where you specify components for the application pipeline. If you start a new Visual Studio project, you’ll see pieces of OWIN in it. OWIN is a specification that defines an API for framework and servers to cooperation. The point of OWIN is to decouple server and application. For … Read more
Katana is Microsoft’s OWIN implementation and also includes some middleware components for security/authentication, serving static files, and a few other things. Kestrel is Microsoft’s cross-platform development web server that can be used with ASP.NET 5. ASP.NET 5 does not implement OWIN, but has a “bridge” to enable OWIN components to be used in ASP.NET 5 … Read more
They’re not stored server side — they’re issued to the client and the client presents them on each call. They’re verified because they’re signed by the owin host’s protection key. In SystemWeb hosting, that protection key is the machineKey setting from web.config. That’s unnecessary, as long as the protection key the owin host uses doesn’t … Read more
The NuGet package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Owin contains that DLL. You can install it by right-clicking on the References folder of your project and selecting “Manage NuGet Packages…” and searching for “Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Owin”. Or you can use the Package Manager Console and type the following: Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Owin If you use the Package Manager Console within Visual Studio, be sure … Read more
Here it was fixed by replacing “ScriptBundle” with “Bundle” in BundleConfig. We replaced the following: bundles.Add(new ScriptBundle(“~/bundles/mybundle”).Include( “~/Scripts/…”, “~/Scripts/…”)); with: bundles.Add(new Bundle(“~/bundles/mybundle”).Include( “~/Scripts/…”, “~/Scripts/…”));
You can add as many claims as you want. You can add the standard set of claims from System.Security.Claims or create your own. Claims will be encrypted in your token so they will only be accessed from the resource server. If you want your client to be able to read extended properties of your token … Read more
You might want to take a look at this blog post. It’s using Unity but it should end-up being the same. Basically, use the WebAPI Dependency Resolver. Make sure that everything is mapped properly and it should be fine. If after setting up your DI you still have problem with your OAuth token, let me … Read more
Update 22nd April 2017: Version 3.1.0 of the Microsoft.Owin.* packages are now available. If you’re having problems after Facebook’s API changes from the 27th March 2017, try the updated NuGet packages first. In my case they solved the problem (working fine on our production systems). Original answer: In my case, I woke up on the … Read more
Using a Stefan Cebulak’s answer and a Ben Foster’s great blog article ASP.NET Identity Stripped Bare I have came up with below solution, which I have applied to ASP.NET Identity 2.0 with a generated by Visual Studio 2013 AccountController. The solution uses an integer as a primary key for users and also allows to get … Read more
The Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener assembly is a runtime reference in WebApp.Start. You need to include it in the project’s references for it to be available for loading. Check the bin\Debug (etc) directory to make sure it’s included. May as well add it as a nuget dependency as well.