Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

Basic authentication

As is evident from the word basic, basic authentication involves a mechanism where the system asks for simple credentials (username and password) to authenticate or validate the user via incoming requests from the client to the web or application servers via RESTful web services (in our case, ASP.NET Core web APIs).

Consider the following diagram, which showcases basic authentication:

The preceding diagram is of the basic HTTP authentication that I'm going to implement in our code. Here, the request comes from the client to access resources that are protected (resources that are kept from public access). The request contains ...