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Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new)

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Product type Book
Published in May 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784398378
Pages 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Building Web Services with Microsoft Azure
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API Extending the ASP.NET Web API API Management Developing a Web API for Mobile Apps Connecting Applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus Creating Hybrid Services Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure Index

Securing the ASP.NET Web API


Multiple extension points in the ASP.NET Web API enable developers to implement a feature in different ways. Some features can be provided by the hosting platform while some are available as part of the ASP.NET Web API framework. In this section, we discuss options available for Web API authentication and authorization and delve into the details of some of the features provided by the ASP.NET Web API framework.

The following table lists the various options that can be used to secure an ASP.NET Web API:

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Option

Description

Authentication filters

These provide a clean and granular way of implementing authentication for Web API controllers and actions. For example, they allow us to enable multiple authentication schemes for each controller or even for a particular action. We discuss authentication filters later in this section.

Authorization filters

These are used to determine access to a resource based on incoming user credentials. We discuss authorization filters...