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Understand Authentication and Authorization in Web Applications

As Web API (Rest API) is stateless, so there should be some mechanism by which a server can identify the user in every request. So to enable a user's identity to a web server, we pass some data in headers in each web request to the server. The server reads that data & understands to identify the user. This process of identifying the user & ensuring that he is a valid one is known as Authentication.