Basic authentication in ASP.NET MVC 5

Question

What steps must be done to implement basic authentication in ASP.NET MVC 5?

I have read that OWIN does not support cookieless authentication, so is basic authenticat

Answer 1

You can do this with a custom attribute. There is an implementation of a custom attribute that supports base authentication in the open source project SimpleSecurity, which you can download here. There is a reference application to demonstrate how it is used. It was originally developed to work with SimpleMembership in MVC 4 and has been recently ported to use ASP.NET Identity in MVC 5.