I am developing ASP.net application which consumes REST services with ASP.Net Web API. I am trying to use Basic authentication for my website. I plan to use it with SSL once I complete Basic authentication.
Currently on Login button click I am sending Auth header using Base64 encoding of username and password as shown below:
string responseData = string.Empty;
string authToken = string.Empty;
string loginInstance = url;
// Create request.
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(loginInstance);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
String username = txtUserName.Text;
String password = txtPassword.Text;
String encoded = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
request.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);
request.ContentLength = 0;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
String resultData = reader.ReadToEnd();
bool result = false;
result = Convert.ToBoolean(resultData);
return result;
I assume I will need to send authentication header to all of those web api requests that needs to be secure and pass through authentciation.
Is there a way to attach authentication header to every request that I send or even to a set of requests? Please note: most of the Web API requests are invoked through JQuery.
Also please let me know if this is not recommended approach of implementation.
Regards,
Abhilash