In this article I would present a discussion on implementing HTTP authentication in Web API with code examples to illustrate the concepts discussed.

“Everyone feels the need to write a custom authentication protocol” says George Reese, which he claims is one of the things he learnt working on a programming API for cloud providers and Saas ...

How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

How to leverage Web APIs in your business March 26, 2015 - 6:07 pm Manfred (@ManfredBo) is API Market Development Director at 3scale – delivering API Management solutions (@3scale on Twitter).

Phasing out Basic Authentication is, to be honest, a sensible decision. One of the older web authentication protocols, it uses cleartext usernames and passwords to control access to services.

Microsoft announced its end-of-support plans for some Exchange Web Services components earlier this month. The company plans to deprecate the Exchange Web Services API for Office 365 users, according ...