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WordPress HTTPS to HTTP Cookie Error

After switching from HTTPS to HTTP (local development) WordPress may sometimes get stuck in the following error message:

Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser.

The browser complains:

This Set-Cookie was blocked because it was not sent over a secure connection and would have overwritten a cookie with the Secure attribute.

The solution is:

1. Visit the https:// version of the site (it would error out as Connection Refused, or give you an SSL warning, whatever)
2. Clear the cookies while in the error screen.

Makes sense.



Consuming Hidden WCF RIA Services

A Silverlight application made it to my desk yesterday, an application that consumed a remote WCF RIA service running on a Microsoft IIS. The service did not provide a public API, nor did disassembly with dotPeek help get the service manifests to construct a WCF client with. WSDL files weren’t exposed either. A new, custom client was to be written by reverse engineering what was available without any fancy configurations.

Consuming Hidden WCF RIA Services

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