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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463951
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Malendra Hurbuns Malendra Hurbuns
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Mithun Pattankar Mithun Pattankar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding HTTP and REST 3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API 4. Controllers, Actions, and Models 5. Implementing Routing 6. Middleware and Filters 7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing 8. Web API Security 9. Integration with Database 10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging 11. Optimization and Performance 12. Hosting and Deployment 13. Modern Web Frontends

Implementing JWT

JWT are also called JSON Web Tokens; they are industry standards for security token used in securely transmitting information between client and server as JSON objects.

They are widely used for being self-contained, small, and complete. Being small in size, they can be sent through URL, POST parameters, or inside HTTP Headers.

JSON Web tokens contain credentials, claims, and other information. To know more about JWT, I recommend reading https://jwt.io/introduction/.

One of the reasons for JWT to be so popular is that, when it is used with web API, the clients consuming them can work with ease, be they mobile app, hybrid app, web app, or any programming language based on Desktop apps or services too.

A sample JWT is an encrypted string containing information for secure communication, as shown in the following screenshot:

JSON web token sample

The workflow for...

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