25. September 2014

Simple Token Authentication for .NET Web API

A simple way to use tokens in HTTP requests for authentication in Web API with [Authorize] attribute including Identity, Principal and Roles. 

Sample code: https://gist.github.com/wolfspelz/a080601bbd3988782701


Valid tokens are stored statically in Azure-CloudConfigurationManager. This can be changed easily to check a real database of tokens.

_happy_authenticating()