WIF 4.5 BootstrapContext security token null

Question

I am using the new 4.5 WIF stuff to authenticate users of the website and to secure the communication between my MVC website and WCF services.

I have the website con

Answer 1

I have solved the problem by deleting the browser cookie including the Fedauth cookie. Once debugging again I was able to get all needed values

Answer 2

I have stumbled upon the same issue. I see the Token to have the xml representation of the token and the SecurityToken being null. I also noticed that this is really easy to reproduce by killing w3wp.exe.

Answer 3

I had the same issue when I implemented the ClaimsAwareWebFarm sample from microsoft. The problem arises when you add this section to the web.config:

  <caches>
    <sessionSecurityTokenCache type="CacheLibrary.SharedSessionSecurityTokenCache, CacheLibrary">
      <!--cacheServiceAddress points to the centralized session security token cache service running in the web farm.-->
      <cacheServiceAddress url="http://localhost/SecurityTokenCacheService/SessionSecurityTokenCacheService.svc" />
    </sessionSecurityTokenCache>
  </caches>

Thank you Matt for this workaround!