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How to resolve AADSTS90056 – “The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request.”

This post details my very simple solution to an extremely unnecessary and kind-of simple error that I encountered when logging into SharePoint. However, you could run into the same error after configuring Azure Active Directory authentication to a custom web application. The error message comes in at least 2 variants. These are shown below: AADSTS90056: This endpoint only accepts POST, OPTIONS requests. Received a GET request. The other one I’ve seen doesn’t even mention OPTIONS, just POST: AADSTS900561: The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received…Continue reading How to resolve AADSTS90056 – “The endpoint only accepts POST requests. Received a GET request.”

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Google Plus is shutting down – fix your .NET OAuth flow!

Google is shutting down their Facebook killer, Google+. While I’m sure there’s at least 10 end users that are sad to see the ill-fated not-that-social-medium go, the implications for Software Developers actually could be far more far-reaching. A lot of implementations of Google’s OAuth seem to rely on Google Plus’s APIs to get gather information about the user. When Google Plus goes down, so will the APIs. Their apparently unsafe implementation seems to be a major reason Google’s hastening the shutdown anyway. This means that…Continue reading Google Plus is shutting down – fix your .NET OAuth flow!