Accessing webpage from server with SSL Certificate?

[leeh795]

Hello,

I am a new user for DASP and ideally wanted to use the service to start development work with other online services, particularly using windows live id for authentication.

But one of the steps I need to complete before getting any further is to log into the live.com website on the server w/ the SSL certificate to register the service.

So i'm not sure how to complete the registration if i do not have the ability to get into the machine remotely. There are programs that must be installed on the same server also.

Are there any options that I have - my DASP account that i'm using has SSL registered already and it is active.

[raymondp]

I'm not quite sure on what you mean by Live.com services. Are you referring to Microsoft Cardspace?

[CrystalCMS]

If you mean you are attempting to perform a programmatic login from your web application hosted on DASP to the web page here http://login.live.com/ then this will be possible using the WebClient class in System.Net namespace.

Doing this is effectively performing a programmatic FORM post containing the username and password, which in effect is the automated version of a user filling in the fields in the form and pressing the Sign In button.

I'm not going to go into a fully fleshed out coded solution in this post because it will be quite long winded, but I'm sure you will be able to find some decent examples of how achieve this in .NET with a well worded google search!