If I understand the issue correctly you would do this via some custom
middleware. I usually see authorization being done using the claims based
policy stuff nowadays.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 6:31 PM Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's not Friday, but I've got a complaint.
>
> In a fresh .NET 5 Web Api I want to implement the simplest authorization
> technique using a header like x-auth-key: xyzzy. I could do this my old
> legacy way of using an IActionFilter class OnActionExecuting to inspect the
> headers and cause an error response (that works). But I wanted to do it
> "the formal modern way" so I went looking for guidance. After about 7 hours
> of searching and experiments I have found nothing that works. I found at
> least a dozen samples that used completely different classes, interfaces
> and configuration, but some won't compile, some have no effect, some are
> too complex to bother coding, and those that do work do not have enough
> context information available to complete my logic or I don't know how to
> set return values.
>
> I read years ago that an aim of Core was to unify and
> simplify configuration to make it more extensible. Most of my time wasted
> today was fumbling around in Startup.cs with extension methods, lambas,
> fluent syntax and a hundred unfamiliar classes. Microsoft hasn't made
> config easier, they've made it harder than solving differential equations
> in a maze in the dark. I also spent an hour fumbling around configuring
> Swagger as well because it's now part of the problem.
>
> Overall, I'm getting progressively more upset and depressed about the
> complexity of some large parts of the .NET ecosystem. Things aren't getting
> easier!
>
> *Greg K*
>

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