Jun 15, 2013 · I'm implementing a RESTful web service using ASP.Net Web Api. I have concluded to use Basic authentication + SSL to do the authentication part. What is the best/correct way to implement that? My first attempt was to do it manually, parsing the Authorization header, decoding and verifying the user against my database.

Jul 31, 2012 · For Web Api with asp.net, you can just use the cookie and formsauthentication module as you would with an mvc app (if you want to). So in your web api code you can then check the principal to see if the user is logged-in, for example (same as before).

Oct 22, 2014 · I'm wanting to build a RESTful web service using ASP.NET Web API that third-party developers will use to access my application's data. In Visual Studio I decided to create a new ASP.NET project. I followed this tutorial but I choose a different template: Web API template.

Oct 20, 2015 · Inside my corporate environment, I have IIS7.5 hosting both a Web API service and a separate website which makes calls into that service via the RestSharp library. Both are currently configured with Windows Authentication. If I navigate to either one with a browser, I'm prompted to enter my windows credential, and everything works great...

Dec 8, 2021 · I am attempting to build a super simple API-key authentication for certain APIs in a controller. For this I have this in ConfigureServices(): services.AddAuthorization(options => { options.Add...

Aug 16, 2016 · I'm struggling with how to set up authentication in my web service. The service is build with the ASP.NET Core web api. All my clients (WPF applications) should use the same credentials to call the web service operations. After some research, I came up with basic authentication - sending a username and password in the header of the HTTP request.

Aug 26, 2012 · Just create authentication token on server-side and store it in your database or even in cache. Then send this token with requests from your win forms application. WebApi should check this token all the time. It's good enough and you have full control over your auth process. Let me share, how it works for me: Object with Auth details: public class TokenIdentity { public int UserID { get; set ...

Now, I want to integrate the web application with the Web API which is going to be used by my mobile app too. I stuck in the authentication in the Web API calls (with the bearer token I received from the web application). I saw examples to create …

Sep 9, 2022 · You can use Jwt authentication to protect your web api and this is one of the method based on OAuth2.0. Here's a blog and the following codes are based on it. OAuth2.0 is a protocol but not the implement. So you can't find samples for it. But when you searched Jwt auth, Azure AD into .net 6 or some other products, you will find many doucuments.

I am trying to use a client certificate to authenticate and authorize devices using a Web API and developed a simple proof of concept to work through issues with the potential solution. I am running into an issue where the client certificate is not being received by the web application.