Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition

16 Using the platform features, part 2

This chapter covers

• Using cookies to store data that will be presented in subsequent requests
• Using sessions to identify related requests and store associated data
• Working with HTTPS requests
• Limiting the rate of requests processed by endpoints
• Responding to exceptions and errors
• Filtering requests based on the host header

In this chapter, I continue to describe the basic features provided by the ASP.NET Core platform. I explain how cookies are used and how the user’s consent for tracking cookies is managed. I describe how sessions provide a robust alternative to basic cookies, how to use and enforce HTTPS requests, how to deal with errors, and how to filter requests based on the Host header. Table 16.1 ...