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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

You're reading from   Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core Developing Distributed Web Services to improve scalability with .NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788291576
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gaurav Aroraa Gaurav Aroraa
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Sharbani Bhattacharya Sharbani Bhattacharya
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started 2. Building the Initial Framework – Laying the Foundation of the Application FREE CHAPTER 3. User Registration and Administration 4. Item Catalogue, Cart, and Checkout 5. Integrating External Components and Handling 6. Testing RESTful Web Services 7. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 8. Securing RESTful Web Services 9. Scaling RESTful Services (Performance of Web Services) 10. Building a Web Client (Consuming Web Services) 11. Introduction to Microservices 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

Registration is a very common, yet very important part of an application. We handled the registration of Customers through the API. Before that, we learned to bootstrap the API controller actions and model classes with EF Core. While we were doing all this, we landed on CORS and learned how to handle that, too.

Gradually, we moved to the authentication part, where we discussed Basic Authentication in detail. It is a mechanism to validate the client by the Customer (who are users of our API) credentials (username and password), which are passed in with the requests.

Bearer or Token-based Authentication was the next topic we explored, and we implemented the OAuth paradigm using IdentityServer4. In this case, the client can't access a resource directly by username and password as it was in the case of basic. What it needs is a token first, which is generated by one Authorization...

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