ASP.NET Web API Security Essentials

Summary

Short and sweet, isn't it? You just learned how to protect our Web API from cross-site request forgery attacks.

You also learned about what is meant by a CSRF attack and how it impacts our Web API.

Then you learned about implementing anti-forgery tokens using HTML form and AJAX.

In the next chapter, let's see how to enable cross-origin resource sharing in Web API.

Let's get down to the origins!