Sending Request Headers via jQuery AJAX

Posted by: on | Tuesday, December 18, 2012     Comments

Ever wanted to send request headers from jQuery instead of the "code-behind"? You can easily tweak the ajaxSetup object like this:

$.ajaxSetup({
    beforeSend: function(xhr) {
        xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Parse-Application-Id', 'QIDkel*****SR2c3');
        xhr.setRequestHeader('X-Parse-REST-API-Key', 'mbm311*****d0X2N');
    }
});
  
    console.log(data);
});



This is especially important when you need to be authenticated to use a service or API. Think of assigning server-signed auth tokens (that you generate on your own servers) to client-side apps. Now with every jQuery AJAX call, tokens get sent back to the server ...

Change Forms Authentication Ticket and Cookie Timeouts

Posted by: on | Tuesday, October 25, 2011     Comments

Recently while implementing forms authentication for a WCF RIA Services application I ran into some trouble setting the expiration of the cookie that kept the user logged in. In the web config I had set the forms timeout to 120 minutes like so:

 1:  <authentication  mode="Forms">
 2:  <forms  name=".App_ASPXAUTH"  timeout="120"  slidingExpiration="true"  />
 3:  </authentication>

This worked just fine. After 120 minutes of the browser being open without Silverlight making a request to the server, the authentication had timed-out and I needed to log in again. Once I had that working correctly ...

Implementing User Sessions in ASP.NET without SessionState

Posted by: on | Friday, February 18, 2011     Comments

Few things are more disappointing to an ASP.NET programmer than this one line of code in a web.config:

<sessionState mode="Off" />

You probably know what I mean if you’ve ever been asked to implement user sessions for a web site that has ASP.NET’s built-in session state disabled.  In this post I will offer one simple alternative that allows you to implement user sessions on just such a web site.

Cookies Taste Better In-Memory

The secret to my solution is HTTP cookies.  In my experience, programmers are increasingly afraid to create sites that require cookies because ...