Posts from November 2021

Posts from November 2021 (4)

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  Published on

  2021-11-23 7:41 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  authenticationazureazurekeyvault

  How to update from deprecated Microsoft.Azure.Services.AppAuthentication to new and shiny Azure.Security.KeyVaults.Secrets?

  So, a while ago I posted about a fairly simple way to write your code for fetching secrets (and other confidential stuff) from Azure Key Vault in such a way, that it would work the same way both in Azure and on your local dev box. I find this pretty important, as it reduces the need for weird workarounds and fallbacks in your code, and at the same time enables you to harness the Azure Key Vault for that sweet spot of "good enough security without breaking your back or the bank".

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  Published on

  2021-11-16 4:03 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  azure-adblazor

  Fixing Blazor WebAssembly .NET 6 MSAL authorization bug

  Let's make this short and sweet. In this particular case, upgrading a Blazor WASM solution to .NET 6 broke the authentication when deployed to Azure. The same issue could probably happen to a fresh project, though. This is what you're running into: If you open your browser console, you'll see 2 interesting errors - first: dotnet.6.0.0.o2we6pverp.js:1 mono_wasm_runtime_ready login.microsoftonline.com/common/oauth2/v2.

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  Published on

  2021-11-09 3:21 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  gitgithub

  How to nuke your Git(Hub) commit history?

  Ah - this was a fun one. I needed to figure out how to purge, flush and clear your commit history on GitHub. Turns out it isn't as easy as clicking a button in the web user interface - the world is apparently not ready yet! 😁 Luckily, it wasn't that complicated either - and the steps should work for other flavors of git as well. Background Always remember to .gitignore your secrets, folks! And if you forget, pray you're not committing to a public repository!

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  Published on

  2021-11-02 6:48 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  asp-netazurefunctions

  How to fix "Unable to cast object of type 'System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage' to type 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.HttpRequest'."

  This article explains how to fix an issue where your Azure Functions function (yes, that's a capital F and a lowercase f to denote the difference between the product and the piece of compute) fails to fire when a POST request comes in, even though it's configured to do so, and instead throws a somewhat confusing error message about HttpRequestMessage not being castable to HttpRequest - even though you KNOW HttpRequestMessage works just fine for receiving POST requests with payload!

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