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weblog.west-wind.comProtecting File Access in the wwwroot Folder in ASP.NETASP.NET Core treats files in wwwroot as public static content, but occasionally applications create files there that should only be available to authorized users. In this post I look at several ways to protect those files and show a small middleware solution that lets selectively access files easily.