--- title: Built-In Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API | daily.dev description: This post discusses rate limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API, including its importance in online systems and its implementation using built-in middleware. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/built-in-rate-limiting-in-asp-net-core-web-api-hq6qrt4xc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Built-In Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API | daily.dev og:description: This post discusses rate limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API, including its importance in online systems and its implementation using built-in middleware. 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Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@lezli01** · 0 upvotes > This is useful, but most of the times I won't let my .Net server face front the outside world, it is usually behind some reverse proxy which already does the rate limitation (for e.g.: nginx) --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#aspnetcore](https://daily.dev/tags/aspnetcore) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/built-in-rate-limiting-in-asp-net-core-web-api-hq6qrt4xc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Built-In Rate Limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/built-in-rate-limiting-in-asp-net-core-web-api-hq6qrt4xc","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/built-in-rate-limiting-in-asp-net-core-web-api-hq6qrt4xc"},"datePublished":"2024-04-22T06:31:23.054Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:09:48.658Z","description":"This post discusses rate limiting in ASP.NET Core Web API, including its importance in online systems and its implementation using built-in middleware. 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