Preface

ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. It is an ideal platform to build RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

This book provides a practical guide to secure your ASP.NET Web API by various security techniques, such as integrating the ASP.NET Identity system, implementing various authentication mechanisms, enabling Secured Socket Layer (SSL), preventing cross-site request forgery attacks, and enabling cross-origin resource sharing.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting up a Browser Client, helps you to set up a browser client in order to use Web API services. It also covers ASP.NET Web API Security Architecture and authentication, ...

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