Always get "Authorization has been denied for this request." ASP.NET Web API

By Benjamin Perkins · · ,

I was creating an ASP.NET Web API today and when I called one of the Web APIs (/api/values) I got the following response:

{“Message”:”Authorization has been denied for this request.”}

It turns out by default ‘Individual User Accounts” authentication is enabled by default.  See Figure 1.

image

Figure 1, {“Message”:”Authorization has been denied for this request.”} ASP.NET Web API always default

So what I did was change that to “No Authentication” and I got my testing project up and running real quick, See Figure 2.

image

Figure 2, {“Message”:”Authorization has been denied for this request.”} ASP.NET Web API always default, No Authentication

The result were then as expected.  Sure I could have enabled some authentication, but just wanted to do some performance testing real fast and nothing else.

[“value1″,”value2”]