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ASP.NET Web API Security Essentials
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ASP.NET Web API Security Essentials

by Rajesh Gunasundaram
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
2h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Get an access token

To send an authenticated request to ValuesController, we need to pass an access token in the Authorization header. How do we get this access token? To get this access token, we need to log in the application.

Let's first register a user by posting an instance of the user to the Web API Register action method in the Account controller, as follows:

Get an access token

Fig 12 – POSTing an instance of User to Web API

Now, we have a registered user with the username steve@jobs.com and password Password@1. Let's send form with URL encoded data in the request body to the token endpoint, as follows:

{ "grant_type": "password", "username": "steve@jobs.com", ...
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