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ASP+ Authentication

As explained earlier, authentication is the process of accepting credentials from a user and validating those credentials against some authority. If the credentials are valid, you have an authenticated identity. Then, given an identity, authorization is the process of determining whether that identity has access to a given resource.

There are a variety of methods commonly used to authenticate a request, including Basic, Digest, Windows, and Custom authentication. First, a brief overview of how these authentication schemes work is presented, and then ASP+ support for authentication and authorization is described.

The first version of ASP+ will ship with support for the following authentication providers: