Chapter 5. Enabling Basic Authentication using Authentication Filter in Web API
This chapter will show how to set an authentication scheme for individual controllers or actions using an Authentication filter that implements the HTTP Basic Authentication scheme and also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using Basic Authentication.
In this chapter, we will learn the following topics:
- Basic authentication with IIS
- Basic authentication with custom membership
- Basic authentication using an authentication filter
- Setting an authentication filter
- Implementing a Web API authentication filter
- Setting an error result
- Combining authentication filters with host-level authentication
Basic authentication with IIS
Internet Information Services(IIS) enables ...
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