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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash
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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Securing RESTful Web Services

In the world of web applications, where there are numerous request and response exchanges over HTTP, security is one of the most important cross-cutting concerns. Any unsecured service or web application can face datatampering issues.

"Whenever data is modified (destroyed, manipulated, or edited) by an unauthorized channel, it is generally called data tempering."

Data can be tampered with when it is in transit or in another place. There might be several reasons why data is tampered with—unprotected data is the most common reason in the industry. To prevent such issues, you can protect your environment and application systems. Generally, a firewall is the best way to protect your environment (server). You can protect an application by implementing an authorization mechanism.

Unfortunately, data breaches of well-known sites are commonplace...