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Solution: Do sessions really violate RESTfulness? #computers #solution #development

Solution: Do sessions really violate RESTfulness? #computers #solution #development

Do sessions really violate RESTfulness?

Is using sessions in a RESTful API really violating RESTfulness? I have seen many opinions going either direction, but I’m not convinced that sessions are RESTless. From my point of view:

authentication is not prohibited for RESTfulness (otherwise there’d be little use in RESTful services)

authentication is done by sending an authentication token in the…

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Fixed RESTful Authentication #dev #it #asnwer

Fixed RESTful Authentication #dev #it #asnwer

RESTful Authentication

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.

Answer: RESTful Authentication

I really doubt whether the people enthousiastically shouting “HTTP Authentication” ever tried making a browser-based application…

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How to: Do sessions really violate RESTfulness?

How to: Do sessions really violate RESTfulness?

Do sessions really violate RESTfulness?

Is using sessions in a RESTful API really violating RESTfulness? I have seen many opinions going either direction, but I’m not convinced that sessions are RESTless. From my point of view:

authentication is not prohibited for RESTfulness (otherwise there’d be little use in RESTful services)

authentication is done by sending an authentication token in the…

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Fixed "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource" #dev #it #asnwer

Fixed "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource" #dev #it #asnwer

"No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource"

I am trying to do authorization using JavaScript by connecting to the RESTful API built in Flask.

As result I get:

XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://myApiUrl/login. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'null' is therefore not allowed access.

I know that the API or…

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How to: RESTful Authentication

How to: RESTful Authentication

RESTful Authentication

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.

Answer: RESTful Authentication

It’s certainly not about “session keys” as it is generally used to refer to sessionless authentication which is performed within…

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Basic HTTP auth and Restful Authentication

https://gist.github.com/1696418