Basic authentication get username and password

In IIS Manager, go to Features View, select Authentication, and enable Basic authentication. In your Web API project, add the [Authorize] attribute for any controller actions that need authentication. A client authenticates itself by setting the Authorization header in the request.

In basic HTTP authentication, the client passes their username and password in the HTTP request header . Typically, using this technique we encrypt user credentials string into base64 encoded string and decrypt this base64 encoded string into plain text. You can also use another encryption and decryption technique.

Basic authentication is a simple authentication scheme built into the HTTP protocol . The client sends HTTP requests with the Authorization header that contains the word Basic word followed by a space and a base64-encoded string username:password .