Monthly Archives: August 2013

OWIN Authentication Middleware Architecture

Originally posted on brockallen:
In Katana (Microsoft’s OWIN framework and host implementation) there is an abstraction for creating middleware that does authentication. Microsoft has defined base class called AuthenticationMiddleware and AuthenticationHandler (among other helper classes) and these work to process…

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OWIN Authentication Middleware for Hawk in Thinktecture.IdentityModel.45

Originally posted on Badri's Blog:
This is continuation of my previous post Basic Authentication with ASP.NET Web API Using OWIN Middleware, where I implemented HTTP basic authentication in a custom OWIN middleware class AuthenticationMiddleware that derives from the OwinMiddleware…

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