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).

We won’t be using any of those features here. Click Create. We’ll use this ASP.NET Core Web API project to work with the code examples given in the sections below.

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 ...