Is there a way to have a route with optional authentication? I have a specific route that both users...

# ktor

[CLOVIS]

Is there a way to have a route with optional authentication? I have a specific route that both users and anonymous clients can access.

[Eric Grimsborn]

Maybe a bad idea but, you could create an auth provider that always succeeds authenticating and add that to the route since the authenticate function can be called with multiple configurations.

[Eric Grimsborn]

They actually have functionality for this…

[Eric Grimsborn]

Just add the parameter for optional

[Eric Grimsborn]

It will give you a null principal according to the documentation.

[CLOVIS]

I have to give it to them that in insight it was extremely easy to find.