Tagged articles - Authentication

Is is not so often than you have to use more than one authentication schemes in your project, but there are some corner cases when you have to do so. One of it is a scenario where you are supporting some weaker authentication schema like basic http authentication where credentials are supplied pretty much on every request. This kind of loosen security schema is to some limited extend suitable for internal APIs meaning that no other than users or most likely application within your organization network will access...read more

Basic authentication is not so popular authentication method nowadays. There is a valid reason for that and that is mainly the way credentials are used to authenticate to access the resources...read more

SignalR is number one choice for real-time communication between server and client. It implements several transports for communication between server and client...read more

Authentication is an essential component of pretty much any REST API. Most of the resources you expose through REST API services, unless they are protected inside intranet, need to be protected by some kind of authentication. This is pretty much clear and it is easy achieved by just simply decorating your controller actions or even whole controllers with Authorize or AllowAnonymous attributes. ...read more

If you have a website like this one with articles and you would like to suggest most visited articles to your visitors, there are few ways to do this. One of them is definitely a custom solution that can track and store count of every visit per page you have, or without any re-inventing of wheel you can just hook to Google Analytics API to pull the data...read more

Authentication in web services is a bit more different than with web pages because of one simple reason. There is no UI for entering credentials to authenticate to consume service...read more

In case you are a .NET developer and you are using Google Cloud platform, eventually your apps or services will have to interact with Google Cloud (GCE) services. Good thing is that complete GCE is exposed through REST API. Whole authentication is done through OAuth 2.0, but the authentication of website applications and your services which might be running in background on your server is not the same...read more