Documentation for Crowd 1.0. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.

Microsoft .NET Client

Created by Justen Stepka [Atlassian], last updated by Mridul Pandey on May 23, 2007 1 minute read

You will need to create a .NET proxy to the SOAP API, as follows:

Open a Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Command Prompt.

Run the following command to generate a proxy class (change the location of the WSDL according to your installation):
```
wsdl /l:CS /protocol:SOAP http://localhost:8080/crowd/services/SecurityServer?wsdl
```
(Note: Ignore any schema validation warnings returned here)
Compile the generated class with the following references:
```
csc /t:library /r:System.Web.Services.dll /r:System.Xml.dll SecurityServer.cs
```
This should generate a .NET assembly called SecurityServer.DLL.

When creating your .NET client application, remember to add a reference to this proxy. You will also need to add a reference to System.Web.Services.DLL.

The sample code calls methods from the proxy to perform authentication in a sample Crowd Application. Change the constants at the top of the code relevant to any Application you have previously set-up in Crowd.

2 Comments

Jean Verger
Mar 14, 2007
Validation Factors and Unitque Tokens

The example provided in the code works great.

However, it misses pointing out about ValidationFactors which, as far as I am understanting, allows CROWD to provide unique tokens based on those Factors.

Here the C# to add validation factors as well as the code to retrieve the IP and User Agent of the client.

Hope it helps

Adding Validation Factors

ValidationFactor fIP = new ValidationFactor();
fIP.name = "REMOTE_ADDRESS";
fIP.value = ip;

ValidationFactor fBrowser = new ValidationFactor();
fBrowser.name = "USER_AGENT";
fBrowser.value = browser;

ValidationFactor[] vFactor = new ValidationFactor2;
vFactor.SetValue(fIP, 0);
vFactor.SetValue(fBrowser, 1);
Your_Principal_Context.validationFactors = vfactor,
_securityServer.authenticatePrincipal(appToken, Your_Principal_Context);

Retrieving IP and User Agent from the Client

HttpContext context = HttpContext.Current;
HttpResponse response = context.Response;
HttpRequest request = context.Request;
string sUseragent = request.Headers"User-Agent";
string sIP1 = request.ServerVariables"REMOTE_ADDR".ToString();
string sIP2 = "";
string sIP = "";
if (request.ServerVariables"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR" != null)
{
sIP2 = request.ServerVariables"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR".ToString();
}
sIP = (sIP2 != "") ? sIP2 : sIP1;
SarahA
Jul 09, 2010
There's a useful guest blog post on the Atlassian blog, from Catch Limited, who've integrated a .Net application with Crowd: Integrating Enterprise Tester with Crowd.