After thinking about this some more, it is a bad idea to mix the cookie and the form tokens since it defeats the whole purpose of the anti forgery token. It is better to keep the cookie part as a cookie while moving the form part to an auth header, therefore this new answer (again as an AuthorizeAttribute).
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Helpers;
using System.Web.Http;
using System.Web.Http.Controllers;
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Method, AllowMultiple = false, Inherited = true)]
public class ApiValidateAntiForgeryToken : AuthorizeAttribute {
public const string HeaderName = "X-RequestVerificationToken";
private static string CookieName => AntiForgeryConfig.CookieName;
public static string GenerateAntiForgeryTokenForHeader(HttpContext httpContext) {
if (httpContext == null) {
throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(httpContext));
}
// check that if the cookie is set to require ssl then we must be using it
if (AntiForgeryConfig.RequireSsl && !httpContext.Request.IsSecureConnection) {
throw new InvalidOperationException("Cannot generate an Anti Forgery Token for a non secure context");
}
// try to find the old cookie token
string oldCookieToken = null;
try {
var token = httpContext.Request.Cookies[CookieName];
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(token?.Value)) {
oldCookieToken = token.Value;
}
}
catch {
// do nothing
}
string cookieToken, formToken;
AntiForgery.GetTokens(oldCookieToken, out cookieToken, out formToken);
// set the cookie on the response if we got a new one
if (cookieToken != null) {
var cookie = new HttpCookie(CookieName, cookieToken) {
HttpOnly = true,
};
// note: don't set it directly since the default value is automatically populated from the <httpCookies> config element
if (AntiForgeryConfig.RequireSsl) {
cookie.Secure = AntiForgeryConfig.RequireSsl;
}
httpContext.Response.Cookies.Set(cookie);
}
return formToken;
}
protected override bool IsAuthorized(HttpActionContext actionContext) {
if (HttpContext.Current == null) {
// we need a context to be able to use AntiForgery
return false;
}
var headers = actionContext.Request.Headers;
var cookies = headers.GetCookies();
// check that if the cookie is set to require ssl then we must honor it
if (AntiForgeryConfig.RequireSsl && !HttpContext.Current.Request.IsSecureConnection) {
return false;
}
try {
string cookieToken = cookies.Select(c => c[CookieName]).FirstOrDefault()?.Value?.Trim(); // this throws if the cookie does not exist
string formToken = headers.GetValues(HeaderName).FirstOrDefault()?.Trim();
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(cookieToken) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(formToken)) {
return false;
}
AntiForgery.Validate(cookieToken, formToken);
return base.IsAuthorized(actionContext);
}
catch {
return false;
}
}
}
Then just decorate your controller or methods with [ApiValidateAntiForgeryToken]
And add to the razor file this to generate your token for javascript:
<script>
var antiForgeryToken = '@ApiValidateAntiForgeryToken.GenerateAntiForgeryTokenForHeader(HttpContext.Current)';
// your code here that uses such token, basically setting it as a 'X-RequestVerificationToken' header for any AJAX calls
</script>