When designing the Access Control Service we wanted to make it easy to request a token from the STS. We also wanted to make it possible to work with other languages, not just the .NET Framework. As such, I decided to validate the simplicity of the design by picking a few popular programming languages and implementing a token request from the Access Control Service STS. The following few posts will demonstrate requesting a Simple Web Token (SWT) using both Shared Secret and Simple Web Tokens to for the request.

 

If you are unfamiliar with the Access Control Service, please check out the MSDN documentation “Overview of the Access Control Service.” (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd582780.aspx)