This topic has been incredibly confusing for me. I am a rookie in HTTP apps but need to develop an iPhone client that consumes JSON data from somewhere. I chose Web API from MS because it seemed easy enough but when it comes to authenticating users, things get quite frustrating.
I am amazed how I've not been able to find a clear example of how to authenticate an user right from the login screen down to using the Authorize attribute over my ApiController methods after several hours of Googling.
This is not a question but a request for an example of how to do this exactly. I have looked at the following pages:
Even though these explain how to handle unauthorized requests, these do not demonstrate clearly something like a LoginController or something like that to ask for user credentials and validate them.
Anyone willing to write a nice simple example or point me in the right direction, please?
Thanks.