I recently need to take part of an XML document and convert that portion to a string. The problem is Service-now.com javascript libraries currently don’t have a way to let you select a node in your xml document and change that node and its children to a text representation of an xml document with that [...]

I recently needed to verify the outgoing IP address to a Service-now.com instance. Since SNC instances are hosted in the cloud you cannot just ping their instance name to get the IP address. Their incoming addresses and outgoing addresses will be different (among other things). In order to easily get the IP address of the [...]

John Andersen presented a session on Single Sign-on Techniques and Integrations with Service-now.com. It was a packed house at the Omni hotel in San Diego. There were a lot of customers and partners that had some good questions and excellent ideas. The session went well and John had the opportunity to network with talented people [...]

I do a number of Single Sign On integrations with customers for Service-now.com. While doing some research on the Single Sign-on capabilities of Service-now.com, I found that they also offer an iframe setting for those not yet ready to set up SSO in their corporate environment, but want an integrated look to the authentication page [...]

Playing around with SAML 2.0 some more. Here is some code that I created that allowed me to create a SAML 2.0 AuthnRequest object to be submitted to an Identity Provider. 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122public String buildAuthnRequest(){     try {             XMLObjectBuilderFactory builderFactory = org.opensaml.Configuration.getBuilderFactory();             //Generate [...]

I recently created a SAML 2.0 Service Provider using PHP. I used the AuthnRequest Protocol with HTTP-POST binding. This was done to help me understand the basic SAML 2.0 exchanges between a Service Provider and an Identity Provider. Here is an exhaustive analysis of my Service Provider logs that I created. The service provider that [...]