IAuthenticationManager.Challenge Method

Creates a challenge for the authentication manager.

Namespace:   Microsoft.Owin.Security
Assembly:  Microsoft.Owin (in Microsoft.Owin.dll)

Overload List

	Name	Description
	Challenge(AuthenticationProperties, String[])	Add information into the response environment that will cause the authentication middleware to challenge the caller to authenticate. This also changes the status code of the response to 401. The nature of that challenge varies greatly, and ranges from adding a response header or changing the 401 status code to a 302 redirect.
	Challenge(String[])	Add information into the response environment that will cause the authentication middleware to challenge the caller to authenticate. This also changes the status code of the response to 401. The nature of that challenge varies greatly, and ranges from adding a response header or changing the 401 status code to a 302 redirect.

See Also

IAuthenticationManager Interface
Microsoft.Owin.Security Namespace

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IAuthenticationManager.Challenge Method (AuthenticationProperties, String[])

Add information into the response environment that will cause the authentication middleware to challenge the caller to authenticate. This also changes the status code of the response to 401. The nature of that challenge varies greatly, and ranges from adding a response header or changing the 401 status code to a 302 redirect.

Syntax

void Challenge(
    AuthenticationProperties properties,
    params string[] authenticationTypes
)

void Challenge(
    AuthenticationProperties^ properties,
    ... array<String^>^ authenticationTypes
)

abstract Challenge : 
        properties:AuthenticationProperties *
        [<ParamArrayAttribute>] authenticationTypes:string[] -> unit

Sub Challenge (
    properties As AuthenticationProperties,
    ParamArray authenticationTypes As String()
)

Parameters

• properties
  Type: Microsoft.Owin.Security.AuthenticationProperties

  Additional arbitrary values which may be used by particular authentication types.

• authenticationTypes
  Type: System.String[]

  Identify which middleware should perform their alterations on the response. If the authenticationTypes is null or empty, that means the AuthenticationMode.Active middleware should perform their alterations on the response.

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IAuthenticationManager.Challenge Method (String[])

Add information into the response environment that will cause the authentication middleware to challenge the caller to authenticate. This also changes the status code of the response to 401. The nature of that challenge varies greatly, and ranges from adding a response header or changing the 401 status code to a 302 redirect.

Syntax

void Challenge(
    params string[] authenticationTypes
)

void Challenge(
    ... array<String^>^ authenticationTypes
)

abstract Challenge : 
        [<ParamArrayAttribute>] authenticationTypes:string[] -> unit

Sub Challenge (
    ParamArray authenticationTypes As String()
)

Parameters

• authenticationTypes
  Type: System.String[]

  Identify which middleware should perform their alterations on the response. If the authenticationTypes is null or empty, that means the AuthenticationMode.Active middleware should perform their alterations on the response.

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