How to secure public APIs in ASP.NET Core?

ASP.NET Core is a popular structure. Its key advantages include features such as cross-platform execution, high performance, built-in dependency injection and modular HTTP request pipeline.

Challenges

The ASP.NET Core provides support for many authentication providers to secure applications through numerous authentication workflows. However, in many scenarios, we have to provide a web application/site that is based on an unauthenticated API with anonymous access.

For example, we have a list of products in the database and we want to display these …

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