Testing and Securing the Website

Learn about testing ASP.NET Core empty website functionality and enabling HTTPS encryption for secure communication.

We'll cover the following

Test the functionality of the project and enable encryption
- Try it yourself
Enabling stronger security and redirecting to a secure connection
Try it yourself

Test the functionality of the project and enable encryption

We will test the functionality of the ASP.NET Core Empty website project. We will also enable encryption of all traffic between the browser and web server for privacy by switching from HTTP to HTTPS. HTTPS is the secure encrypted version of HTTP.

Step 1: For Visual Studio:

In the toolbar, make sure that the https profile is selected rather than http, IIS Express, or WSL, and change the Web Browser (Microsoft Edge) to Google Chrome, as shown in the figure:

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Introduction

Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

Speaking C#

Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exception

Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

Working with Common .NET Types

Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

Building and Consuming Web Services

Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

Conclusion

Testing and Securing the Website

Test the functionality of the project and enable encryption