Service Stack authentication - servicestack

Question

? - Is it possible to have multiple authentication providers within the same MVC 4 hosted service stack web services, we will have multiple endpoints utilizing internal and external services that require differing levels/types of authentication.
I need initially to implement a couple of custom providers to suit our our needs so that depending on the URL a different authentication provider is utilized, so far I have only found examples of providing a single custom authentication provider.

Answer 1

Yes. You can use multiple providers. Then you could have different roles for different resources (urls) to manage your internal vs external levels.
Take a look at the https://github.com/ServiceStack/SocialBootstrapApi example project. This example has a lot of different authentication providers. Each auth provider resolves to the path /auth/{provider} where provider is resolved using the IAuthProvider.Provider property of your custom providers and the build in providers.
You will need to register each auth provider you want to use.
//Register all Authentication methods you want to enable for this web app.
Plugins.Add(new AuthFeature(
() => new CustomUserSession(), //Use your own typed Custom UserSession type
new IAuthProvider[] {
new CredentialsAuthProvider(),
new TwitterAuthProvider(appSettings),
new FacebookAuthProvider(appSettings),
new DigestAuthProvider(appSettings),
new BasicAuthProvider(),
new GoogleOpenIdOAuthProvider(appSettings),
new YahooOpenIdOAuthProvider(appSettings),
new OpenIdOAuthProvider(appSettings),
}));
Then you can login by hitting the different urls like
/auth/facebook
/auth/twitter