Implementing Basic and JWT Token authentication with C# .NET
Authentication is probably the first thing you will encounter when building a secure Enterprise application and understanding how you can authenticate your application with different authentication protocols including third party authentication flows is really important. Whether you are building an app with ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, WPF, UWP, Xamarin.Forms Xamarin Android, Xamarin iOS or .NET Core , all these frameworks provides client side networking libraries managed under System.NET namespace. Among all the classes HttpClient has significant important. It can handle both HTTP and HTTPS connections. The beauty of this class is that it provides both hight level api and low level modification options to work with HTTP connections and you can make any modification within the pipeline like handling HTTP message request/response, filtering, certificates, authorization and much more. In a nutshell, over HTTP most of the times you will work with two kinds of authentication:...