Using SSL in ASP.NET Web API

While developing websites that need to deal with sensitive data, developers use authentication schemes such as ASP.NET forms authentication. Although these authentication schemes prohibit unauthorized access to web pages, the user credentials as well as data involved in the communication is sent as plain text. Since the data is being sent in unencrypted form it can be easily intercepted by malicious parties and can pose a security threat to your web application. To secure such communication the data must be encrypted and then sent over the wire. An industry standard method to achieve such a secure communication is Secure Sockets Layer or SSL. This article explains how SSL can be used in ASP.NET Web API to achieve secure data transfer.

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