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Is Web API a web application?
Web API is the enhanced form of the web application. ASP.NET Web API: ASP.NET stands for Active Server Pages.NET. It is mostly used for creating web pages and web technologies. It is considered a very important tool for developers to build dynamic web pages using languages like C# and Visual Basic.
What is public Web API?
An open API, also called public API, is an application programming interface made publicly available to software developers. Open APIs are published on the internet and shared freely, allowing the owner of a network-accessible service to give a universal access to consumers.
What is web API example?
The ASP.NET Web API is an extensible framework for building HTTP based services that can be accessed in different applications on different platforms such as web, windows, mobile etc. It works more or less the same way as ASP.NET MVC web application except that it sends data as a response instead of html view.
Can a web API be accessed by any application?
Any application can access the API without having to request permissions for it. But as explained in the previous section, your web API can always verify that the application has the right role, which is authorized by the tenant admin.
How to register a web API with Microsoft identity platform?
In this quickstart, you register a web API with the Microsoft identity platform and expose it to client apps by adding an example scope. By registering your web API and exposing it through scopes, you can provide permissions-based access to its resources to authorized users and client apps that access your API.
How to verify app roles protected Web API?
If you want only daemon apps to call your web API, add the condition that the token is an app-only token when you validate the app role. Checking the inverse condition allows only apps that sign in a user to call your API. Move on to the next article in this scenario, Move to production.
How to register and expose a web API?
If you followed this optional step, the client app is now a pre-authorized client app (PCA), and users won’t be prompted for their consent when signing in to it. Next, add another example scope named Employees.Write.All that only admins can consent to.