It’s often desirable for an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)- integrated application to maintain application state when sending request to Azure AD for login. The recommended way to achieve this is to use the ‘state’ parameter as defined in the OpenID Connect standards. Also mentioned in our documentation, the ‘state’ parameter is used for both preventing cross-site request forgery attacks and to maintain user’s state before authentication request occurs: For…
Read MoreTroubleshooting Asp.Net OWIN and Asp.Net Core Authentication sign-in failures with Azure Active Directory
Let get started! This article assumes you are using your own code to perform the authentication to Azure Active Directory. IMPORTANT: So if your using Azure App Services or Azure Function Apps Authentication/Authorization feature, this article is not for you. You are developing a Asp.Net OWIN or Asp.Net Core Authentication web application and integrating it with Azure Active Directory. You run into some issues during the sign-in process with no…
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