Authentication is commonly understood as the act of asserting a user's or entity's identity, although in the wider sense it can refer to asserting the truthfulness of any kind of claim. Authentication, like encryption, is a major component in implementing computer security.

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API authentication using Basic Auth and tokens

I'm a bit confused on how to properly authenticate a user. Am I correct that when a user tries to login via my Android client it would be okay to send my user's username/pass via basic auth and if ...
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Adding authentication to static Azure Website

We have an Azure Website hosting a static site (just some HTML, CSS, Javascript), which then communicates with our Azure Mobile Services by AJAX calls. We would like to add some very simple ...
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WCF - localhost double hop security negotiation timeout (IIS Integrated mode only)

If someone could help me out here, I would very much appreciate it. I have a set of websites making calls between each other (all on localhost on the same box). Site A makes a series of parallel ...
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ServiceStack, Authenticate attribute

I am trying to write my own authentication, so I inheritted CredentialsAuthProvider and overrided Authonicate method. Auth is working fine, also when i call another service i can see all data that i ...
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How to verify authenticated user for each valid page request

I want only logged-in users to be able to access ANY content on an experimental PHP web app I'm developing, but I'd like to avoid calling an authentication script on all pages that I create (no ...
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ASP.NET authentication from Eclipse

I appreciate if anyone can provide some tips in how to authenticate an asp.net membership user through Eclipse. Is there any direct approach to do this (plugins to Eclipse)? Overview of project: ...
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Implementing custom Authentication in Asp.Net MVC 4

I'm much new to ASP.NET MVC 4. I am developing an app which must use FormsAuthentication or even other kind of mechanisms together with my own custum USER and other Data tables and my own storage ...
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Android Http Basic Authenticate Request from Ruby on Rails

I have a Ruby On Rails app online which uses devise authentication. I am trying to make an android app which make a request from ror app when a user try to log in (so the users can use same account ...
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LDAP Authentication with Java, explanation needed

if you could please explain to me one piece of the following code that I don't quite understand I would be grateful: What does (&(cn=*)({0}={1})) mean in the filter field? I know that cn means ...
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Microsoft WinHttp library always return 401 in proxy enviroment

The model is client app with WinHttp"--->"Proxy Server"--->"Sharepoint Servr. When the client send the HTTP request, it receives 401 status code. Even if WinHttpSetCredential, it still ...
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Using moodle to authenticate users to a web application

I'm developing a php web application to be used for a university. It needs the users to login before using some services. The university already has a moodle system in which all students and lecturers ...
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Sharepoint site continuously prompting for credential

I am trying to access a SharePoint website which is in the production server.I am not able to see the pages, as it prompting continuously for credential. I tried adding URL in the ...
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vb.net login control not re-authenticating

I am newbie when it comes to working with the vb.net login control so bear with me... Tp start I am using ASP.net 4.0 and vb.net. Okay so I have a simple login control that verifies the user ...
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Cross Domain Authentication via Ajax (Javascript)

There are a lot of similar questions asked, though I didn't really find a good answer. Here is the scenario. Given: Three websites with different domain names (not just different subdomains): Site ...
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Login system using physical postgres users not “logical” users

I'm currently building an application that has to conform with SOX auditing requirements. One of these, is that all inserts, updates and deletes (but delete you can ignore), need to leave a trail that ...

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