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API Authentication with Tokens

Miguek Grinberg Blog

In this article I'm going to show you a few common patterns for client authentication based on tokens, and how can they be implemented in a Python API back end. This method of authentication works…

Auth Schemes of REST API

Towards Data Science

The user’s data is the underlying currency that is driving the API economy. Like any currency, you need to handle it with care and transport it with caution to prevent theft. Different devices and…

A Better Authentication API

Python in Plain English

Recently, I wrote a series of posts explaining how JSON Web Tokens could be utilized in an API that was written using Flask. However, a few weeks ago, I discovered how awesome FastAPI is and have…

Creating Secure API’s with EasyAuth & FastAPI

Analytics Vidhya

Currently the API is accessible and usable by anyone with a network connection that can reach the server: Instead of re-creating users, group, roles, & permission, centralize into a single auth…

How to design a secure web API access for your website?

ByteByteGo Newsletter

How to design secure web API access for your website? When we open web API access to users, we need to make sure each API call is authenticated. This means the user must be who they claim to be. In th...

API Security Best Practices

ByteByteGo Newsletter

APIs are the backbone of modern applications. They expose a very large surface area for attacks, increasing the risk of security vulnerabilities. Common threats include SQL injection, cross-site scrip...

HTTP Basic Auth

FastAPI Documentation

HTTP Basic Auth For the simplest cases, you can use HTTP Basic Auth. In HTTP Basic Auth, the application expects a header that contains a username and a password. If it doesn't receive it, it returns...

How to secure the Rest APIs

Javarevisited

Today let’s talk about the security to protect your APIs. In this article, you will learn and understand how to build and secure APIs with various security patterns.We will discuss the best practices ...

Secure Your Azure Functions Endpoints(Open API) with Basic Authentication (.NET)

Level Up Coding

Introduction This guide explores integrating OpenAPI, the modern specification for APIs, to streamline the process. While basic authentication offers a simple approach, keep in mind it might not be su...

Authenticating HTTP Requests in Modern Web Apps

Level Up Coding

Ensuring a user is authenticated is an essential part of creating a modern web application. Today, we’ll be looking at a common approach using JWT access and refresh tokens with Axios.

JSON Web Token and Web Authentication

The Pythoneers

Login session and can perform authentication and authorization Continue reading on The Pythoneers

How to Secure your REST API using JWT

Level Up Coding

You’ve probably heard that JSON Web Token (JWT) is the current state-of-the-art technology for securing APIs. So if you’re planning to use it, it’s important to understand how it works. This is a…

How You Can (And Why You Should) Secure Your API Keys

Towards Data Science

Simple best practices for protecting API keys Continue reading on Towards Data Science

Secures APIs with a JWT Token

Level Up Coding

In the last post, we connected to a MongoDB server and used a real database to replace the dummy data storage. In this post, we will explore how to protect your APIs when exposing to a client…

API Encryption Front End

Level Up Coding

I wrote a program on how to use a cipher to encrypt API keys. The output of that cipher was a .txt file containing the encrypted string and a .bin file with the decryption key. I wanted a graphical…

Securely Authorizing Connected Devices using API Tokens

Level Up Coding

When we think of authorization in app development, it’s usually from the perspective of a user that has specific roles and permissions. For example, a fitness app that tracks a user’s workouts might…

Spring Boot — Securing API with basic authentication

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Spring Boot — Securing API with basic authentication Introduction : In today’s article, we will discuss what is basic authentication and securing spring boot rest APIs using basic authentication. Pre...

How to pass cookie in Swagger UI for Authenticating the APIs — API Documentations using Open API 3

JavaToDev

In this guide, we’ll explore the implementation of Swagger for documenting your application’s APIs and discuss the process of authenticating APIs within Swagger using cookie-based JWT authentication. ...

Authentication using JSON Web Tokens (part II)

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In this article, I will show you how to implement a Spring Boot Application that makes use of JWT authentication for securing an exposed REST API.

RESTful Authentication with Flask

Miguek Grinberg Blog

This article is the fourth in my series on RESTful APIs. Today I will be showing you a simple, yet secure way to protect a Flask based API with password or token based authentication.This article…

Spring Boot Authorization: Creating an Authorization Server for your Microservices

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This article explains in detail about implementing an Authentication mechanism using a centralized Authorization Server and an API gateway.

Basic Authentication

Essential Java

The way to do a JAX-WS call with basic authentication is a little unobvious. Here is an example where Service is the service class representation and Port is the service port you want to access. Servi...

API Security Essentials: Comprehensive Practices to Safeguard Your Data Exchange

Level Up Coding

Introduction In today’s interconnected world, where data exchange between applications and services is commonplace, the security of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) is paramount. APIs serve a...

Authentication using JSON Web Tokens (part I)

Level Up Coding

JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This information can be…