APPENDIX A

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ASP.NET Web API Security Distilled

This appendix is a grand summary of this book, a recap of the various security mechanisms we have seen so far. There is no good or bad mechanism in an absolute sense. The idea of this book is to present all the mechanisms and let you decide based on your needs.

There is no mandate that you must select only one mechanism. You can design your web API to support more than one and give client applications a few options. The ASP.NET Web API pipeline helps us plug in as many handlers as we need to run. Message handlers are great enablers for achieving that goal.

If you decide to choose more than one, carefully ...

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