Exam Ref AZ-203: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure by Santiago Fernández Muñoz

Author:Santiago Fernández Muñoz [Santiago Fernández Muñoz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Published: 2019-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

When the users of your application submit the information for login or registering in your application, their web browsers send that information to your application, and then your application processes the request for creating the user in the database or authenticating the user. In a form-based authentication mechanism, the authentication process is performed by your code; it compares the value of the hashed password stored in your database with the hashed value of the password provided by the user on your web form. Your application also needs to ensure that any request made to the application needs to be authenticated before serving the content to the user. To avoid having the application prompt the user for credentials every single time the user tries to access to a protected section of your application, you need to save the credentials into a cookie that the user’s browser provides to your application. The application usually encrypts the content of this cookie, so no malicious user or process can easily guess the username and password of a valid user of your application.

Fortunately, the Identity Framework takes care of most of these operations for you, and you only need to correctly configure it to your needs. This configuration consists of two different steps:

Configuring the form-based authentication

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