Combine the use of authentication both for MVC pages and for Web API pages?

Question

I have an MVC 5 web application and can login with a Login.cshtml page and get a cookie and the login works fine. But, I would like to do a login with the Web API and then (

Answer 1

I assume what you're trying to do is have pages served by MVC have javascript that makes calls to Web API methods. If you're using ASP.NET Identity to handle authentication (which it looks like you're doing), then MVC should be using OAuth tokens that can be passed to Web API for authentication.

Here's a snippet from some javascript code that works for me in a similar situation:

var token = sessionStorage.getItem('access_token');
var headers = {};
if (token) {
    headers.Authorization = 'Bearer ' + token;
}
$.ajax({
    type: ,
    url: ,
    headers: headers
}).done(function (result, textStatus) {