"Cannot post activity. Unauthorized" When testing from Bot Emulator

Question

While testing the EchoBot template from Azure in Bot Emulator I keep getting "Cannot post activity. Unauthorized." How can I protect against this? I am new to .NET, so don't understand the how authentication is working here. I can see the configuration settings being loaded, but I don't see how they get supplied or applied in the default EchoBot template from Azure.

I have found I only get Unauthorized, if I have the "MicrosoftAppID" and "MicrosoftAppPassword" defined in the appsettings.json. If I comment these out it works fine.

    [HttpPost]
    public async Task PostAsync()
    {
        // Delegate the processing of the HTTP POST to the adapter.
        // The adapter will invoke the bot.
        await Adapter.ProcessAsync(Request, Response, Bot);
    }

So I would like to understand how to avoid having to comment these lines out when testing the code locally. PostAsync returns the 401.

Answer 1

Have you tried adding your Microsoft App ID and Microsoft App Password inside of the Emulator ?

It should work fine after you add those when you test the bot in the emulator, check picture below