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SignalR: Real-time Application Development - Second Edition

You're reading from   SignalR: Real-time Application Development - Second Edition A fast-paced guide to develop, test, and deliver real-time communication in your .NET applications using SignalR

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785285455
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Einar Ingerbrigsten Einar Ingerbrigsten
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HTTP handler config

In order for the user to be authenticated, we need something we can call on the server to do the authentication. We could have gone with a hub for that purpose, or even a persistent connection. However, it would lead to some interesting configuration and having to disconnect from SignalR, when we were authenticated, and then having to reconnect. So instead, we can do something in the simplest possible way.

In order to be able to log in from our login page that we will be creating, we will be using an HTTP handler for authenticating and giving us the authentication cookie for any subsequent requests. We'll create the handler shortly. However, for now, let's just configure it to allow requests even if we're not logged in:

  1. Add the following right before the <system.webserver> tag in web.config:
    <location path="SecurityHandler.ashx">
      <system.web>
        <authorization>
          <allow users="*"/>
        </authorization...
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