Summary
Voilà! We just secured our Web API using Forms and Windows authentication.
In this chapter, you learned how Forms authentication works and how it is implemented in Web API.
You also learned about configuring Windows authentication and got to study the advantages and disadvantages of using Windows authentication.
Then you learned about implementing Windows authentication mechanism in Katana.
In the next chapter, let's see how to use external authentication services, such as Facebook and Twitter, to secure Web API.
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