Authentication with SignalR

- [Instructor] If you're familiar with how to do … authentication and authorization … with a standard ASP.NET MVC application, … you'll be pleased to know that it works pretty much the same … in SignalR hubs as it does in standard MVC controllers. … SignalR doesn't provide and special features … for authentication, instead it just provides access … to the authentication context built into ASP.NET MVC. … Within a hub, you have access to Context.User.Identity, … and this will give you the I identity … of the currently authenticated user. … SignalR also provides an attribute called Authorize, … which lets you restrict access and set authorization roles. … This attribute can be used on a hub … or on an individual method within a hub. … Next up, we'll see how we can use authentication … and authorization to send private messages in Front Chat. … …