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

An application of ours "accidentally" used basic authentication because of the following code in Web.config:

    
        
    
    ... other stuff

The application is otherwise configured to use forms authentication. The browser authentication window popped up whenever normal forms authentication would otherwise have been used.