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Archives / 2013 / March
  • Giving temporary access to your ASP.NET Web API with Hawk

    One of the features supported by Hawk, an HTTP authentication protocol based on HMAC, is to provide read-only access to a Web API for a short period time.  That’s performed through a token called “bewit” that a Web API can provide to a client. That token is only valid for Http GET calls and it can be used for a limited period of time.

  • ASP.NET Web API Logging and Troubleshooting

    ASP.NET ships with two built-in mechanisms for doing logging and troubleshooting.  Chasing errors without knowing these two mechanisms might be a daunting task, specially if they happen in the runtime pipeline much before a message gets to a handler or a controller.