Last week I was looking on how to enable Two Factor Authentication in a RESTful ASP.NET Web API service using Soft Tokens not SMS. Most of the examples out there show how to implement this in MVC application where there will be some cookies … [Continue reading]
Recently I've received lot of comments and emails asking how we can decouple the OWIN Authorization Server we've built in the previous posts from the resources we are protecting. If you are following the posts mentioned below you will notice that … [Continue reading]
Recently I've been asked by many blog readers on how to secure ASP.NET Web API 2 using Azure Active Directory, in other words we want to outsource the authentication part from the Web API to Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD). We have already seen … [Continue reading]
Recently I was working on designing and implementing a large scale RESTful API using ASP.NET Web API, this RESTful API contains large number of endpoints with different data models used in the request/response payloads. Proper documentation and … [Continue reading]
Ok so it is time to enable ASP.NET Web API 2 external logins such as Facebook & Google then consume this in our AngularJS application. In this post we'll add support to login using Facebook and Google+ external providers, then we'll associate … [Continue reading]
After my previous Token Based Authentication post I've received many requests to add OAuth Refresh Tokens to the OAuth Resource Owner Password Credentials flow which I'm currently using in the previous tutorial. To be honest adding support for … [Continue reading]
This is guest post written originally to Auth0. Recently I've blogged about using tokens to authenticate users in single page applications, I've used ASP.NET Web API, Owin middleware and ASP.NET Identity to store local accounts in database, I … [Continue reading]
This is the second part of AngularJS Token Authentication using ASP.NET Web API 2 and Owin middleware, you can find the first part using the link below: Token Based Authentication using ASP.NET Web API 2, Owin middleware, and ASP.NET Identity - … [Continue reading]
Last week I was looking at the top viewed posts on my blog and I noticed that visitors are interested in the authentication part of ASP.NET Web API, CORS Support, and how to authenticate users in single page applications built with AngularJS using … [Continue reading]
Last week I was working on AngularJS project which contains multiple JavaScript files (controllers, services, directives, etc...), good number of HTML partials, and some custom CSS files. This project started to grow and the number of JavaScript … [Continue reading]