I want to create a REST service with PHP 5. I'd appreciate it if people would recommend some guides/tutorials on the subject. I'd like tutorials that cover the whole process, including the creation, securing and deployment of the service. Thanks. ...
Using restful_authentication and before_filter :login_required, :only=> [:create] on controller: Is it possible to store data from form, and after user logged in, continue with 'create'? So i mean: User logged off and he see Somecontroller#new Then he fill in the form Then he press "Save" As we have login_required, user now has ...
I have a Zend Framework application that I am trying to tweak so I can use with an iPhone application. Everything in my ZF application requires that you are logged in first. In the browser you go to myapp.com/auth/login and get a login form. When you successfully authenticate, a cookie is set in order to remember that you are logged in...
I have an existing website written in PHP. I would like to add a REST API. I like how easy creating a RESTful API was using Django. Are there any CONS for using Django for the sole purpose of creating an API on a PHP powered website? Thanks in advance. ...
I have a Restful web service API, that is being used by different 3rd parties. Part of that API is restricted (you need username/password to access it). I was wondering what would be the best way of implementing authentication? I'm using https, so communication is encrypted. I have two ideas: Before user starts using (restricted) serv...
We have a Windows app hosting a WebBrowser control that hits our REST APIs. We like to restrict access to the APIs to be only coming from withing the Windows app itself (for example, the APIs cannot be accessed in a browser, etc). How can we accomplish that? what is the most secure way without having to expose any kind of credential (f...
Hello! I'm looking to migrate users of a rails app which uses the Restful Authentication module (which uses a stretched sha1 encryption algorithm) to a Django app, using the default authentication framework (which uses a plain sha1 algorithm). Does anybody know how I can make this happen? specifically, can I somehow implement the same e...
Working my way through clarkware's iphone-rails-tutorial and trying to build and run the final rails code that is included but I get this error in the server's console whenever I try to access localhost:3000/ ActionController::RoutingError (uninitialized constant ApplicationController::Authentication): app/controllers/application_cont...
Is there a consensus best approach to implementing user roles when using RESTful resource routes? Say I have the following resources: User has_many Tickets Event has_many Tickets Ticket belongs_to Person, Event And then further say I have two types of Users: customers and agents. Both will log into the system, but with different r...
Hi, I am writing a Java Rest Web Service and need the caller's IP Address. It thought I saw this in the cookie once, but know don't see it. Is there a consistent place to get this information? I saw one example of using an "OperationalContext" to get it, but that was not java. Thanks ...
Can anyone provide some information, hints or tutorials that demonstrate how to use Spring Security OAuth with Spring's PreAuthorize feature? Ideally, I would like to link a username used for preauthorization to OAuth credentials. ...
Is it considered bad design if one url accepted different payloads depending on the basic authentication used? for instance: http://localhost/userA PUT by userA is allowed up pass XML_A but http://localhost/userA PUT by adminA is allowed up pass XML_B which is XML_A plus more. in otherwords it is the same resource but what can be upd...
I am using the restful authentication plugin in rails and i need to skip the authorization and log the user in immediately...How can this be done Any ideas would be highly appreciated ...
I'm working on a REST webservice, and in particular authentication methods for browser-based requests. (using JsonP or Cross-domain XHR requests/XDomainRequest). I've done some research in OAuth, and also Amazon's AWS. The big drawbacks of both is that I need to do either of the following: Store secret tokens in the browser Let a ser...
Hi stackworld, Well heres my question. In my project im using a rest service to authenticate clients. That part is ok as I have used a simple authentication by hashing a user id and a password together. After the authentication I want to open to the users few other rest services through the modular scheme in zend framework. I am curre...
I'm very confused on this restful authentication plugin on rails 3. I tried to install the plugin using the following command. It tells me it's already installed, then I tried to use the --force to reinstall this plugin it tells me that the plugin not found So if the plugin is already installed why do I get error Could not find generat...