December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
204 pages
3h 5m
English
Content preview from Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition
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Chapter 4: Configuring and Customizing HTTPS with Kestrel
In ASP.NET Core, HTTPS is on by default, and it is a first-class feature. On Windows, the certificate that is needed to enable HTTPS is loaded from the Windows certificate store. If you create a project on Linux or Mac, the certificate is loaded from a certificate file.
Even if you want to create a project to run it behind an IIS or an NGINX web server, HTTPS is enabled. Usually, you would manage the certificate on the IIS or NGINX web server in that case. Having HTTPS enabled here shouldn't be a problem, however, so don't disable it in the ASP.NET Core settings.
Managing the certificate within the ASP.NET Core application directly makes sense if you run services behind the firewall, ...