SignalR and user identity (authentication and authorization)

There are too many authentication types (Basic, Windows, Cookie, OAuth) to explain how to use all of them. In this sample, I focus on using Cookie Authentication to secure a website, a Persistent Connection, and a Hub. Authentication is configured on OWIN, you have to add some nuget packages and add code in Startup.cs. I started with a web project using the MVC Template. By default, it creates web forms to register users, input user credentials, configures an anti-forgery token for http requests, creates an entity framework repository for User Identity. For the self host server there is no template, so I created it using the previous project as sample but removed things like the anti-forgery token, MVC, and entity framework. The important thing...(read more)