Recent Posts by Tim Melander

This article is part 1 of 2 that will explain how using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Oracle IDCS, and the Oracle App Gateway can be used together to seamlessly access a protected HTTP resource using your Microsoft desktop login without being prompted to enter your username or password.  As a bonus, the App Gateway can be configured to pass data downstream in HTTP headers to the protected web application.  In fact, what makes this solution even more interesting...

If you have never heard of Postman, please see the official Get Started with Postman -  https://learning.postman.com/getting-started/ or my Part 1: Automate getting an Identity Cloud Service Access Token in Postman -  https://www.ateam-oracle.com/part-1-automate-getting-an-idcs-access-token-in-postman.  If you are familiar with Postman, you may have run into situations where hundreds or even thousands of records are returned from a single RESTful API call, but run into a...

This article covers an unpublished feature in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, at least at this time, to configure an access rule in the Web Application Firewall (WAF) to immediately redirect a browser to a specific URI when accessing another URI.  For example, someone goes to https://www.acme.com/help which could immediately redirect the browser to https://www.acme.com/portal/support.html.  I know, you are probably thinking there are a number ways to accomplish this feat, and...

Johannes Murmann wrote a great blog Integrating APEX with Oracle Identity Cloud Service, but this integration is for APEX running on-premises.  Fast forward, APEX has moved to the cloud like many other things, so I thought I should write an article on how to integrate the cloud version of APEX with Oracle Identity Cloud Service.  The integration is quite different as it uses the OpenID Connect protocol, and should be possible with any APEX cloud application.  As a bonus you...

Running Oracle Infrastructure Cloud database services on Bare Metal, VM, or ExaData is really great.  From the console you spin up a new database by selecting your shape, answer some questions, and instant database.  A lot of niceties are there to take care of things that normally has to do be done manually.  Then suddenly, in my case, my Oracle Access Manager WebLogic instance, which was using a cloud database to store data, failed to start.  The WebLogic logs output looked...

I recently created an instance, but when I tried to ssh to it I got the following error; what!?      tmelander$  Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic) As part of the instance creation I went ahead and selected a public ssh key, and I may have used the incorrect public key or something else.  My bad. Regardless of what happen I was denied from logging into the instance.  If you google the error it could be a number of problems including incorrect permissions...

Introduction In Part 1: Automate getting an Identity Cloud Service Access Token in Postman I covered using a Pre-request script to automate getting an Access Token from Identity Cloud Service in order to successfully be authorized to send REST API requests. Then in Part 2: Using Postman Runner with Identity Cloud Service I built on this Pre-request script to enhance the script to get data from a CSV that would play a role in using Collection Runner, and in addition brought in...

Introduction In the last article, Part 1: Automate getting an Identity Cloud Service Access Token in Postman, I explained how using a Pre-request Script can automate getting an access token so when a request is sent to Identity Cloud Service it just works, a big time saver. In this article I am going build on using that Pre-request script and add Tests scripts in a way that we can chain requests in a collection and automate all the requests at once using Postman Collection...

Introduction If you have spent enough time working with web services you have probably heard of Postman. If not, then let me say it is a great tool to test REST APIs against Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) among other things. When using Postman with web services you quickly learn an OAuth2 Access Token is required in order to successfully be authorized to complete a REST call.  Each time a request is sent you can either manually request an Access Token setting the Authorization...