In my Blazor app (which uses Azure B2C), I want to be able to call an endpoint whether the user is authenticated or not.
I've searched quite a bit, and everything I find says I should create two HttpClients (example), one for anonymous and one for authenticated, or use IHttpClientFactory with named clients.
The problem is I am using Strawberry Shake which only allows me to configure HttpClient once (it is using a named client and IHttpClientFactory internally).
Their documentation gives a simple example of setting authentication:
services
.AddConferenceClient()
.ConfigureHttpClient((serviceProvider, client) =>
{
var token = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<ISomeService>().Token;
});
I thought I could use this to conditionally select which handler(s) I wanted, but the only ways I can find to get the token (IAccessTokenProvider.RequestAccessToken()) or validate authentication (Task<AuthenticationState>) require async calls, which are not allowed in this context. Even .Result doesn't work (not that I wanted to use it anyway).
My last thought is that maybe I could accomplish this by inheriting from BaseAddressAuthorizationMessageHandler or chaining handlers, but I can't figure out how. I even tried copying the source code and modifying it, but still couldn't get it to work (UPDATE: Actually, that did work, but it still seems less than ideal).
So many approaches seem workable, but ultimately fail me. How can I get this to work? Please provide code example if possible.