I'm implementing basic authentication using MVC5's IAuthenticationFilter interface. My understanding is that this is now the preferred approach instead of using a DelegatingHandler. I've got it working but the www-authenticate header is not being returned in the response. This is my implementation of ChallengeAsync:
public async Task ChallengeAsync(HttpAuthenticationChallengeContext context, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
var result = await context.Result.ExecuteAsync(cancellationToken);
if (result.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized)
{
result.Headers.WwwAuthenticate.Add(new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", "realm=localhost"));
}
}
The header is returned if I set it in AuthenticateAsync but I think I'm supposed to set it in ChallengeAsync. Sample implementations have been hard to find.