>> It depends. If you're in a busy area of a big city with 1 bar of EDGE >> coverage on your phone, latency becomes your biggest connectivity issue. So >> if you're only doing something with the API every 24 hours, auth could >> reasonably be close to 50% of the time you stare in frustration cursing your >> carrier. > > I think this is a good reason to support both token and request signing. > Token works wonderfully for multi-request apps, simplistic curl-type tools, > and dev work. Signing works great for infrequent requests and slow links and > apps that want that extra bit of security or that have to work over plain > text links.
I agree with you, because the end result is giving developers a way to offer end users an optimal experience (which is only needing one request). _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
