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Questions about authentication for RESTful services.

RESTful Authentication

What does RESTful Authentication mean and how does it work? I can't find a good overview on Google. My only …

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Basic HTTP and Bearer Token Authentication

I am currently developing a REST-API which is HTTP-Basic protected for the development environment. As the real authentication is done …

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Do sessions really violate RESTfulness?

Is using sessions in a RESTful API really violating RESTfulness? I have seen many opinions going either direction, but I'm …

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RESTful web service - how to authenticate requests from other services?

I am designing a RESTful web service that needs to be accessed by users, but also other web services and …

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How to secure RESTful web services?

I have to implement secure RESTful web services. I already did some research using Google but I'm stuck. Options: TLS (…

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How do I implement login in a RESTful web service?

I am building a web application with a services layer. The services layer is going to be built using a …

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How to assign basic authentication header to XMLHTTPREQUEST?

I've read many answers of preflight and CORS so please do not post links referencing what I should read. Many …

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passport.js passport.initialize() middleware not in use

I am using node with express + mongoose and trying to use passport.js with restful api. I keep getting this …

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REST authentication and exposing the API key

I've been reading up on REST and there are a lot of questions on SO about it, as well as …

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