Re: Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-15 Thread Stuart MacKay
Malcolm, oAuth also looks like a great solution - it was not as well developed when I last looked at REST authentication a couple of years ago. There is a lot of developer support now as well, http://oauth.net/code/, specifically https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2 Stuart I think

Re: Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-14 Thread Malcolm Box
I think oauth solves this problem well. What do you see wrong with it? Malcolm Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any typos On 14 Jun 2011, at 16:35, Stuart MacKay wrote: > Neznez, > > The authentication problem is one that has never really been solved to any

Re: Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-14 Thread Stuart MacKay
Neznez, The authentication problem is one that has never really been solved to any general level of satisfaction for REST APIs, since the connection should be stateless. For HTTP authentication there is either HTTPS + Basic or Digest. HTTPS + Basic considered to be the easiest to implement

Re: Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-10 Thread Malcolm Box
On 10 June 2011 01:26, Yohanes Adhi Nugraha wrote: > > Not that one, if we use django.contrib.auth and @login_required, it's > only redirects you to login page. > What I saw from another site is, browser will popup an alert with > username and password to be filled. > >

Re: Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-09 Thread Yohanes Adhi Nugraha
Hi Malcolm, Not that one, if we use django.contrib.auth and @login_required, it's only redirects you to login page. What I saw from another site is, browser will popup an alert with username and password to be filled. Nez -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-09 Thread Malcolm Box
On 9 June 2011 17:51, Neznez wrote: > Hi all, I'm newbie in Django, and I started to build my own API. I > know that there is Piston or Django REST framework, but I want to > learn API from scratch. What I want to know is, how to make my HTTP > Response (View) is perform

Authentication in API (REST)

2011-06-09 Thread Neznez
Hi all, I'm newbie in Django, and I started to build my own API. I know that there is Piston or Django REST framework, but I want to learn API from scratch. What I want to know is, how to make my HTTP Response (View) is perform authentication before can be accessed, or we can make it have to throw