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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3
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Hands-On RESTful Web Services with ASP.NET Core 3

by Samuele Resca
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
510 pages
11h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Securing APIs with token-based authentication

Applications have traditionally persisted identity through session cookies, relying on session IDs stored on the server-side. This method brings a few significant problems and pitfalls: it is not scalable, because you need a common point where you can store sessions and, every time a user is authenticated; the server will need to create a new record in a data source. Therefore, this approach may become a significant bottleneck for your web service.

Nowadays, token authentication can be helpful to authenticate and authorize users, especially in a distributed system context. The main strength of token-based authentication lies in the fact that the consumer asks for a token to an identity service. ...

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