I'm not sure why but my FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule is resolving as NULL and crashing my app when I try to run my ClaimsTransformer() module:
public void EstablishSession(ClaimsPrincipal principal)
{
var sessionToken = new SessionSecurityToken(principal, TimeSpan.FromHours(8))
{
IsPersistent = false, // make persistent
IsReferenceMode = true // cache on server
};
FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule.WriteSessionTokenToCookie(sessionToken);
// FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule == null and I throw an error :(
}
Here's what's in my web.config:
<configSections>
<section name="system.identityModel" type="System.IdentityModel.Configuration.SystemIdentityModelSection, System.IdentityModel, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
<section name="system.identityModel.services" type="System.IdentityModel.Services.Configuration.SystemIdentityModelServicesSection, System.IdentityModel.Services, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
</configSections>
<system.web>
<authentication mode="None" />
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
<remove name="RoleManager" />
<remove name="FormsAuthentication" />
<remove name="SessionAuthenticationModule" />
<add name="SessionAuthenticationModule" type="System.IdentityModel.Services.SessionAuthenticationModule, System.IdentityModel.Services, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
</modules>
</system.webServer>
<system.identityModel>
<identityConfiguration>
<claimsAuthenticationManager type="Web.Infrastructure.Authentication.ClaimsTransformer, Web" />
</identityConfiguration>
</system.identityModel>
<system.identityModel.services>
<federationConfiguration>
<cookieHandler requireSsl="false" />
</federationConfiguration>
</system.identityModel.services>
This is driving me crazy as I have the code running in a (proof of concept) project without any problems, and appears is all I need to get this functionality working, but for some strange reason, when I try to implement in our real project, my FederatedAuthentication.SessionAuthenticationModule is always NULL.
What am I missing here? Any Ideas? Why is the SessionAuthenticationModule not initializing correctly?
I'm having almost same behavior with already-working project and FederatedAuthentication.WSFederationAuthenticationModule.
Problem solved my switching from IIS Express to full IIS (bad merge of for project file).
Also you can try to add this module not only to a section, but :
<system.web>
<httpModules>
<add name="SessionAuthenticationModule" type="System.IdentityModel.Services.SessionAuthenticationModule, System.IdentityModel.Services, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" />
You may refer to this MSDN article for a sample.