ASP.NET Web API with x509 security certificate

Question

I'm going to use MembershipReboot for my asp.net web api authentication and I'm supposed to implement X509 Certificate .

There is an article in msdn about How to: Secure a Service with an X.509 Certificate , which is for WCF services that uses ServiceHost class. So the question is how to achieve this in asp.net web api services? Is it possible?

Answer 1

There are some "prerequisites" to work with SSL that is:

• Setting up IIS to work with the SSL

You may also want to take a look at:

• Custom Authentication Methods with Web Api

Here is a full Article on:

• How to secure web api using SSL Certificate :