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Aathira
Aathira

Reputation: 793

How to disable windows authentication only for Web API inside a .net core MVC web application

I have a .NET Core MVC web application and I have set windows authentication for that project. Now I have added an API controller in the same project and for which I don't want authentication. Is it possible to disable windows authentication only for API ? The reason why I have created the application with windows authentication is to just log the current user details who is accessing my application via browser.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1766

Answers (1)

Aathira
Aathira

Reputation: 793

After spending several hours I have found the following solution: In launchsettings.json set following values

"iisSettings": {
"windowsAuthentication": true,
"anonymousAuthentication": true,

Add the following line inside startup.cs ConfigureServices

services.AddAuthentication(IISDefaults.AuthenticationScheme);

add 

[Authorize]

attribute in controller where we need to get the user name using namespace 

(Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authorization)

Thus, I am able to hit the API without giving authorization and I am able to get the current user details in the MVC controller.

This one helped me in figuring out the solution : https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/2913

Upvotes: 3

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