Users Authentication

There are four ways to Autenticate user:

1. atNone ("AuthType": "atNone") 

If the Parama AuthType is set to atNone in this case there is no autentification, the user is taken form the connection string in appsettings.json file

2. atUser ("AuthType": "atUser")

If param AuthType is set to atUser in this case at each connection the user and password are send to create connection string.

2.1 Example for Advanced REST client:

Selected Basic authorisation allowes you to send username and password in a request header.

Or you can enter in service HEADER:

authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXXXX
where  XXXXXXXXXXXX is base64 encripted username: password

Or you can use some other authentication method which is allowed by client aplication.

3. POST/API/Users/Authwithcookie

This API generate cookie atCookie ("AuthType": "atCookie") for autorisation in JSON form.

User and password will be send in .json format.

{

"username": "string",

  "password": "string"

}

Expiration in minutes is set in param  "CookieExpiresMinutes": 2,

4. POST/API/Users/Authwithtoken

This API gnerate token atToken ("AuthType": "atToken",) in JSON form needed for autorisation in each API service call.

{

"username": "string",

  "password": "string"

}

User and password will be send in .json format.

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Selected Bearer authorization allows to send an authentication token in the authorization header using the 'bearer' method.

Or you can add token in the service HEADER.

authorization: Bearer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Token Expiration in days: "TokenExpiresDays": 1,

Tokens can be in  JWT or JSON Web Tokens (https://jwt.io/).