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Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs

This chapter is about building and securing web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. This includes implementing techniques to protect a web service from attacks as well as authentication and authorization.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Building web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs
• Relaxing the same origin security policy using CORS
• Preventing denial-of-service attacks using rate limiting
• Understanding identity services

Building web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs

In earlier versions of ASP.NET Core, implementing even a simple web service required a lot of boilerplate code. For example, the ASP.NET Core Web API project template in ASP.NET Core 5 implements ...