Pro ASP.NET Core Identity: Under the Hood with Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 5 and 6 Applications

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A. FreemanPro ASP.NET Core Identity https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6858-2_12

12. Authenticating API Clients

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In this chapter, I explain how ASP.NET Core Identity can be used to authenticate API clients using a simple JavaScript application. Some projects can rely on standard ASP.NET Core user authentication for their clients, and I demonstrate how this works. For other projects, I explain how to provide authentication using cookies and using bearer tokens, which are useful for clients that don’t support cookies. Table 12-1 puts API authentication in context.

Table 12-1.

Putting API Authentication in Context

Question	Answer
What ...