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When to use certificate authentication in a proxy?
Certificate authentication is a stateful scenario primarily used where a proxy or load balancer doesn’t handle traffic between clients and servers. If a proxy or load balancer is used, certificate authentication only works if the proxy or load balancer:
Why do we need authenticated SSL / TLS reverse proxy?
An authenticated SSL/TLS reverse proxy is a powerful way to protect your application from attack. Both users and bad actors first connect to the proxy (which should live in your organization’s DMZ) and need to provide some form of authentication before the proxy even initiates a session with the backing application.
How does client-certificate based authentication with nginx work?
By generating your own internally trusted Certificate Authority, any device which presents a certificate signed by that authority is transparently authenticated to the proxy, and thus relayed to your application. Any device without such a trusted certificate is stopped at the border.
How to configure certificate authentication in Azure web apps?
Configure your server for certificate authentication, be it IIS, Kestrel, Azure Web Apps, or whatever else you’re using. Certificate authentication is a stateful scenario primarily used where a proxy or load balancer doesn’t handle traffic between clients and servers.
What happens if certificate authentication fails in ASP.NET?
If authentication fails, this handler returns a 403 (Forbidden) response rather a 401 (Unauthorized), as you might expect. The reasoning is that the authentication should happen during the initial TLS connection.
How to use ihttpclientfactory with certificate authentication?
The IHttpClientFactory can then be used to get the named instance with the handler and the certificate. The CreateClient method with the name of the client defined in the Startup class is used to get the instance. The HTTP request can be sent using the client as required.