In Basic Authentication, the user passes their credentials [user name and password] on a post request . At the WebAPI end, credentials are verified. If the credentials are valid, then a session will initiate to accept the subsequent requests without validating the user again.
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You can use any HTTP client to invoke your web API . In fact, you can invoke it directly from a web browser. In Visual Studio, start your application in debugging mode. Visual Studio will automatically open a web browser window with URL that points to http://localhost<portnumber>.
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Send an AJAX request to call WebAPI It contains a value as authorization, btoa() to encrypt the username and password. The btoa() method encodes a string in base-64. This method uses the “A-Z”, “a-z”, “0-9”, “+”, “/” and “=” characters to encode the string. You can convert a string to base 64 encoding here.
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