ASP.NET Core 2.0 disable automatic challenge

Question

After upgrading my ASP.NET Core project to 2.0, attempts to access protected endpoints no longer returns 401, but redirects to an (non-existing) endpoint in an attempt to le

Answer 1

After some research, I found we can deal with this problem though the bellow approach:

We can add two Authentication scheme both Identity and JWT; and use Identity scheme for authentication and use JWT schema for challenge, JWT will not redirect to any login route while challenge.

services.AddIdentity().AddEntityFrameworkStores();

services.AddAuthentication((cfg =>
{
    cfg.DefaultScheme = IdentityConstants.ApplicationScheme;
    cfg.DefaultChallengeScheme = JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
})).AddJwtBearer();