Background: I’m designing the authentication scheme for a REST web service. This doesn’t “really” need to be secure (it’s more of a personal project) but I want to make it as secure as possible as an exercise/learning experience. I don’t want to use SSL since I don’t want the hassle and, mostly, the expense of … Read more
What does RESTful Authentication mean and how does it work? I can’t find a good overview on Google. My only understanding is that you pass the session key (remeberal) in the URL, but this could be horribly wrong. 14 s 14 How to handle authentication in a RESTful Client-Server architecture is a matter of debate. … Read more
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