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

Enforcing HTTPS in ASP.NET Core

HTTPS is enabled by default on ASP.NET Core. The main middleware related to the HTTPS protocol is the HttpsRedirection middleware class, which enforces redirection from HTTP to HTTPS. Therefore, it is possible to call the UseHttpsRedirection extension method in the Startup class in order to enable the middleware.

Let's see how to enable and force HTTPS in an ASP.NET Core application running in a docker container. The first step is to generate a self-signed certificate used by the ASP.NET Core application that runs in the container. .NET Core provides a global tool that creates a self-signed certificate on your local environment called dotnet-dev-certs. We can proceed by installing this tool on our local environment ...