New essay: Expect More.  [Sam Ruby] Sam writes an excellent essay on upward and downward compatibility with web service contracts.  If I might paraphrase for context, he holds that we should be a...

Wow, who knew…my managed HTTP authentication samples are on the “Cool Stuff” list at 123aspx.com.  I mean, sure, I thought they were cool :-)…but I didn’t know it would be a popular thing!

Regarding my previous post about adding methods to web services without changing the version/namespace, Brad had a good comment: The thing you have to be careful with is new clients against old...

Clemens and Gordon on XML Web Services Regarding Clemens Vasters’ article on Staying sane in an XML Web Services World: Furthermore, Clemens assumes that XML Schema is the only way to communic...

Sorry for no posts over the last week, with absolutely no notice.  I’ve been out of town at a new client’s office, and for some reason (despite setting everything up), I couldn’t access Radio remot...

A 150-pound fiberglass cow has been stolen from a Chick-Fil-A billboard in Denver.  […] The cow, one of the company’s mascots urging customers to “Eat Mor Chikin,” was apparently taken during the w...

Oops!  Justin Rudd brought the following bugs to my attention: 1. When using Opera, the cnonce value is a base-64 encoded value which may contain the ‘=’ character. The original parsing code di...

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I have posted an article and sample of using HTTP Digest authentication with web services, without using the built-in IIS Digest implementation and Active Directory.  Like my previous authenticatio...

.NET HTTP Module - sample code Introduction Digest authentication has been around for quite some time, but has stayed in obscurity to some extent.  This is probably due to the fact that a limited...