How to: Use Multiple Security Tokens of the Same Type

• In .NET Framework 3.0, a client message only contained one token of any given type. Now client messages can contain multiple tokens of a type. This topic shows how to include multiple tokens of the same type in a client message.

• Note that you cannot configure a service in this way: a service can contain only one supporting token.

To use multiple security tokens of the same type

1. Create an empty binding element collection to be populated.

   // Create an empty BindingElementCollection to populate, 
   // then create a custom binding from it.
   BindingElementCollection bec = new BindingElementCollection();
   

2. Create a SecurityBindingElement by calling CreateMutualCertificateBindingElement.

   SecurityBindingElement sbe = SecurityBindingElement.CreateMutualCertificateBindingElement();
   

3. Create a SupportingTokenParameters collection.

   SupportingTokenParameters supportParams = new SupportingTokenParameters();
   

4. Add SAML tokens to the collection.

   // Two supporting SAML tokens are being added.
   supportParams.SignedEndorsing.Add(new IssuedSecurityTokenParameters("samlTokenType", issuerEndpointAddress1, issuerBinding1));
   supportParams.SignedEndorsing.Add(new IssuedSecurityTokenParameters("samlTokenType", issuerEndpointAddress2, issuerBinding2));
   

5. Add the collection to the SecurityBindingElement.

   ((SymmetricSecurityBindingElement)sbe).OperationSupportingTokenParameters.Add("*", supportParams);
   

6. Add binding elements to the binding element collection.

   bec.Add(sbe);
   bec.Add(new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement());
   bec.Add(new HttpTransportBindingElement());
   

7. Return a new custom binding created from the binding element collection.

   // Create a CustomBinding and return it; otherwise, return null.
   return new CustomBinding(bec);
   

Example

The following is the entire method described by the preceding procedure.

// This method creates a CustomBinding that includes two tokens of a given type.
public static Binding CreateCustomBinding(EndpointAddress issuerEndpointAddress1, Binding issuerBinding1, EndpointAddress issuerEndpointAddress2, Binding issuerBinding2)
{
    // Create an empty BindingElementCollection to populate, 
    // then create a custom binding from it.
    BindingElementCollection bec = new BindingElementCollection();

    SecurityBindingElement sbe = SecurityBindingElement.CreateMutualCertificateBindingElement();

    SupportingTokenParameters supportParams = new SupportingTokenParameters();
    
    // Two supporting SAML tokens are being added.
    supportParams.SignedEndorsing.Add(new IssuedSecurityTokenParameters("samlTokenType", issuerEndpointAddress1, issuerBinding1));
    supportParams.SignedEndorsing.Add(new IssuedSecurityTokenParameters("samlTokenType", issuerEndpointAddress2, issuerBinding2));
    
    ((SymmetricSecurityBindingElement)sbe).OperationSupportingTokenParameters.Add("*", supportParams);
    
    bec.Add(sbe);
    bec.Add(new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement());
    bec.Add(new HttpTransportBindingElement());

    // Create a CustomBinding and return it; otherwise, return null.
    return new CustomBinding(bec);
}

See Also

Concepts

Security Architecture

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Last Published: 2010-03-21