ASP.net Web API RESTful web service + Basic authentication

Question

I\'m implementing a RESTful web service using ASP.Net Web Api. I have concluded to use Basic authentication + SSL to do the authentication part. What is the best/correct way

Answer 1

Jamie Kurtze provides a good explanation of using Basic Authentication here ASP.NET Web API REST Security Basics

From my understanding, if you want your requests to be stateless then each request will require the Authentication field to be set

Jamie Kurtze wraps the necessary code in a class derived from DelegateHandler, while Rick Strahl checks if the call is valid using a Filter. You can read more at his blog post on this topic at A WebAPI Basic Authentication Authorization Filter