Authenticate Using Two Custom BasicAuthProviders

ServiceStack Authentication
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Hello, I currently have a project that uses a custom auth provider that is a subclass of BasicAuthProvider. It authenticates services using the [Authenticate] attribute and works exactly as needed.

I now want to create a second custom auth provider that is also a subclass of BasicAuthProvider. I would like to have some services authenticated with this new one, but some to remain authenticated by the old one. Is there a way for me to accomplish this? Either with the [Authenticate] attribute or another way?

I see that you can specify the provider you want to use on the service this way: [Authenticate(“provider”)], but as far as I can tell and based on my attempts, this will not help me since they are both “basic”. Is that correct?

Appreciate any help!

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You can change the provider name in your sub class by changing the base.Provider property but there should only 1 HTTP Basic Auth provider otherwise you couldn’t use the normal [Authenticate] attribute without specifying a provider as they would be in conflict where both would try to authenticate any HTTP Basic Auth requests.

So I would only have a single Basic Auth Provider and distinguish behavior using something like a custom HTTP Header.