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Questions about authentication for RESTful services.

Services designed using REpresentational State Transfer architecture must often authenticate clients. How best to do this can be a complex topic, as in true REST each client request to the server will contain all the information necessary to complete it (including authentication).

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Shibboleth restful api

I am writing an android application for an University that uses Shibboleth for authenticating the students. Since I am making a android native app (not a webview), I would like to programmatically pass the username and password and get back the…
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Developing Azure functions locally

I am leading a large team of azure functions developers. So, most of the examples quoted by Microsoft using the azure web interface don't work for me. I am developing Azure functions locally using emulators to save some costs. I publish all my…
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FIle upload from a rest client to a rest server

I created a rest server using the codeigniter rest server library created by PhilSturgeon : github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restserver Now, I am using Codeignitor rest client : github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-restclient to get/post data…
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how to deal with access token and refresh token in client side

I am creating a website using AngularJS client side and communicating in REST with a backend (in an other domain). To authenticate every calls, I pass a token through the header of each HTTPS call : "Authorization : Bearer access_tokenXXXXXX" When…
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How to make authenticated requests in mocha test using supertest and agent?

I'm having trouble getting my authenticated tests to run (server returns 401 Unauthenticated) after logging in. var should = require('should'), _ = require('lodash'), app = require('../../../server'), mongoose = require('mongoose'), …
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Implementing OAuth Provider in Delphi

I've developed a REST web service and I want to implement an OAuth Service Provider for authenticating, primarily, two-legged OAuth requests. Could anyone please point me to an implementation of an OAuth Service Provider created in Delphi. Thanks in…
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rest-How to handle authentication in a microservice architecture

I'm creating a series of RESfull services using the microservice architecture described by Martin Fowler recently in his blog (http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html) But I need for all the methods to be accessed exclusively by…
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Authentication/authorization in JAX-RS using interceptors and injection

I am developing a new application in JavaEE 7 using WildFly 8. I am using JAX-RS to provide a RESTful service interface for remote applications. Something like an HttpHeaders object can be injected in a resource method arguments using the @Context…
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ExtJs Model Proxy vs. Store Proxy

OK, I'm stuck on what should be a basic task in ExtJs. I'm writing a simple login script that sends a user name and password combination to a RESTful web service and receives a GUID if the credentials are correct. My question is, do I use a Model…
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What is the correct way to authorize and structure a RESTful backend

A lot of examples about RESTful Web Services do not take into account the problem that today many applications are multi-user. Imagine a multi-user backend exposing a RESTful API. The backend data architecture uses a shared database and shared…
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Symfony2 entity user provider overrides custom auth provider

My Symfony2 custom authentication provider now appears to be working. User Provider I almost used the FOSUserBundle but I don't even have email addresses for my users and I don't need the added functionality or complication. So instead I'm just…
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SAML 2.0 based Authentication for iPhone application

Team, kindly help me how to implement SAML based authentication for iPhone application. I have .NET REST based JSON webservice as my backend service. Kindly advice me on this requirement.
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Should a Basic authentication request be POST or GET?

I have seen Basic authentication being done in both GET and POST requests. On the one hand, I suppose browser caching GET requests could be an issue, but on the other: POST is larger but encouraged for delivering sensitive information. I am not…
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Protecting REST API behind SPA against data thiefs

I am writing a REST Api gateway for an Angular SPA and I am confronted with the problem of securing the data exposed by the API for the SPA against "data thiefs". I am aware that I can't do much against HTML scraping, but at least I don't want to…
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JAX-RS and custom authorization

I'm trying to secure the JAX-RS endpoint and am currently trying to figure out how the authentication and authorization work. Most examples are quite simple as they only piggyback from Java EE App-Server role via web.xml. I'm wondering how to use…
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