How can I read the logged user in my APIController?

Question

in a WebAPI mvc project How can I read the logged user in my APIController?

Answer 1

1. send the credentials with the request from the client side by adding withCredentioals:true

   $.ajax({ url: ajaxURL,
   crossDomain: true, xhrFields: { withCredentials: true }, success: function (data) { alert(data); }, });

2. From your WebAPI server Add the following decoration to allow the cross origin request and to allow the credentioals: [EnableCors(origins: "http://YourClientServer:PORT", headers: "*", methods: "*", SupportsCredentials = true)]

SupportsCredentials will add the header access-control-allow-credentials = true to your response

3. Now you can use the User.Identity.Name