Basic authentication sends the user’s credentials in plaint text over the wire. If you were to use basic authentication, you should use your Web API over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL).

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core.

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind all web standards, has formally promoted the Web Authentication API to the title of official web standard. This promotion means ...