Thanks Leonel! I just thought that web2py had something like that already in place, perhaps needed to add a correct decorator, and I didn't need to reinvent the wheel.
Sidenote to Massimo: What do you think of the idea? Have a decorator to check for a special field or fields (API key related, like API key, API secret) in order to get a particular / restricted access to the API calls. On Thursday, July 31, 2014 2:06:21 AM UTC+8, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > An easy way would be to have your default.py/call function check the API > key and raise HTTP(403) if it's not valid. You could subclass Auth, make > your own basic_login using the API key, use that as the Auth for your > application, and then use auth.requires_login() in call, but it seems > unnecessarily complicated for this. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

