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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
  • Improving startup time and resources using native AOT
  • Understanding identity services

Building web services using ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs

In older versions of ASP.NET Core, you would build a web service using controllers with an action method for each endpoint, a bit like ...

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