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

HTTP basic authentication doesn't require a cookie. It's based on a HEADER in the HTTP request. The header is named Authorization and its value should be username and password combined into a string, "username:password" (all base64 encoded).

Sincerely I never used basic authentication with ASP.NET MVC, but I used Web API to create a custom attribute (you can start from here for WebAPI or here for MVC).