Custom Authentication in ASP.NET Core 2.1

This blog post shows a quick example of implementing custom authentication in .NET Core 2.1 to secure your Web API. And in most cases you do want to secure your Web APIs, even though they were internal (micro)services only. If you don’t have a proper Identity provider e. g. Identity Server in place, and just need a quick solution, then a simple option is to validate Authorization header against a hardcoded value.

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