I often have to parse an XML Document to pull out element text when doing an integration with a third party system. I have used XPATH for these types of queries for years, but have always cringed when there were a lot of...
Read MoreSomeone recently asked me how to send Japanese characters as field values to an incident when using the ServiceNow Perl API. I created a script based off of examples in the ServiceNow Perl API documentation and found that my...
Read MoreBecause ServiceNow is a framed application, I often get asked by customers how to deal with any potential nested frame issues. There are many ways to handle this, but often times it boils down to just inserting frame-busting...
Read MoreI ran into situation the other day where I had been doing a Javascript “Replace” function on a string of text. The Javascript replace looked intriguing because I could use a regular expression and have it replaced...
Read MoreThe other day I needed to do some testing with files of a very specific size. I was on a Windows PC that day, so I needed to find a tool that would work on a windows machine. I originally had thought to give it a spin in Python...
Read MoreI use this a lot and I always have to look it up. I decided to blog it so that I don’t have to search every time I need to use Regular Expression Grouping to grab information from a string. Let’s say that I have a...
Read MorePlaying 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....
Read MoreI 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...
Read MoreJavascript does have a good Date object that can be used to manipulate dates in your script. Another benefit it sports is that it can take several string formats and create a Date object from that string. However, despite their...
Read MoreI have been struggling for the past few days trying to get my Java program to properly build and encode a SAML 2.0 Authentication Request that should initiate a Single Sign-on event with a SAML 2.0 capable Identity Provider. I...
Read MoreI have been spending the past day working with OpenID an getting it to work on a couple of different portals/web applications. OpenID works really well and I highly recommend it as an alternative method of authentication. In...
Read MoreJust today I came across a javascript hack that was sending information for website users to a third party location. The way I found this out – other than getting malware notices from Google, was to do a wireshark trace on the...
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