Try this way: (for example delete the job) curl –silent –show-error http://<username>:<api-token>@<jenkins-server>/job/<job-name>/doDelete The api-token can be obtained from http://<jenkins-server>/user/<username>/configure.
That’s not the purpose of CSRF protection. CSRF protection is to prevent direct posting of data to your site. In other words, the client must actually post through an approved path, i.e. view the form page, fill it out, submit the data. An API pretty much precludes CSRF, because its entire purpose is generally to … Read more
You can get the thumbnail of any wikipedia page using prop=pageimages. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=Al-Farabi&prop=pageimages&format=json&pithumbsize=100 And you will get the thumbnail full URL.
There was a discussion about this recently on API-Craft. The general consensus was there is potentially a semantic difference between the omission of a value, versus an inclusion of a null value. If there is no semantic value to be gained for your specific use case, then I would say look at your target consumers … Read more
As allways, the best way to protect a key is not to transmit it. That said, we typically use a scheme, where every “API key” has two parts: A non-secret ID (e.g. 1234) and a secret key (e.g. byte[64]). If you give out an API key, store it (salted and hashed) in you service’s database. … Read more
maybe this could help some people, if you have this trouble, you should remove @FormUrlEncoded of your interface.
We need to keep our API server security with CORS restriction : All the solutions I found tell me to allow all origin : *, but this would be a big security failure for our API. You don’t explain why you’ve determined it would be a security failure or why you need to have a … Read more
There’s a very straightforward web based solution over at ISBNDB.com that you may want to look at. Edit: Updated API documentation link, now there’s version 2 available as well Link to prices and tiers here You can be up and running in just a few minutes (these examples are from API v1): register on the … Read more
This actually sums it up pretty nicely. API Levels generally mean that as a programmer, you can communicate with the devices’ built in functions and functionality. As the API level increases, functionality adds up (although some of it can get deprecated). Choosing an API level for an application development should take at least two thing … Read more
The term you’re looking for is geocoding and yes Google does provide this service. New V3 API: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/ Old V2 API: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding