From the course: Learning SignalR with ASP.NET Core
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Add cookie authentication
From the course: Learning SignalR with ASP.NET Core
Add cookie authentication
- [Instructor] Since this is a web-based application, we'll add cookie authentication. If you're building a mobile app, you'd use bearer token authentication instead. I created this ASP.NET core app without authentication initially, so I need to add the authentication middleware myself. If you started with the individual off template, you'd have the authentication and ASP.NET core identity components already installed. I want to add cookie authentication to this project so, in the startup class down in the configure services method, I'll do services.AddAuthentication and pass a few options here. I'll say options.DefaultScheme equals CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme. And then I'll say .AddCookie to enable the cookie services and I'll say options here is gonna be options.LoginPath, this is where I want the browser to be redirected to if there's an unauthenticated session trying to access an authenticated page. If I want it to go to /Login. /Login is a page that I've…
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