Suppress redirect on API URLs in ASP.NET Core

Question

I have an ASP.NET Core site that uses cookie authentication for most pages. For those pages, the default server response of providing a 302 redirect for an unauthorized clie

Answer 1

Other simple way

 .AddCookie(options =>
            {
                options.AccessDeniedPath = "/Home/401";
                options.Events = new CookieAuthenticationEvents
                {
                    OnRedirectToAccessDenied = context => 
                    {
                        if (context.Request.Path.StartsWithSegments("/api"))
                        {
                            context.Response.StatusCode = (int)(HttpStatusCode.Unauthorized);
                        }
                        return Task.CompletedTask;
                    },
                };
            })