Protecting Endpoints
Explore how to protect API endpoints in ASP.NET Core by implementing authentication and authorization with Auth0. Learn to use the Authorize attribute to secure actions, handle token-based access, and apply custom policies to restrict operations like updating or deleting to authorized users only.
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We are going to start this section by protecting the questions endpoint for adding,updating, and deleting questions as well as posting answers so that only authenticated users can do these operations. We will then move on to implement and use a custom authorization policy so that only the author of the question can update or delete it.
Protecting endpoints with simple authorization
Let's protect the questions endpoint for the POST, PUT, and DELETE HTTP methods by carrying out these steps:
Open
QuestionsControllerand add the following using statement:
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