Authentication, Authorization and Session Management in Traditional Web Apps and APIs

HTTP Protocol is stateless by design, each request is done separately and is executed in a separate context. The idea behind session management is to put requests from the same client in the same context. This is done by issuing an identifier by the server and sending it to the client, then the client would … Read more

iTunes Connect API [closed]

Update 11/02/2018 On November/18, Apple finally released the Appstore Connect REST API. Referencing the Apple description: TestFlight. Manage beta builds of your app, testers, and groups. Users and Access. Send invitations for users to join your team. Adjust their level of access or remove users. Reporting. Download sales and financial reports. Update 10/03/2018 Good news … Read more

Best way to generate xml? [duplicate]

ElementTree is a good module for reading xml and writing too e.g. from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement, tostring root = Element(‘root’) child = SubElement(root, “child”) child.text = “I am a child” print(tostring(root)) Output: <root><child>I am a child</child></root> See this tutorial for more details and how to pretty print. Alternatively if your XML is simple, do … Read more

Is setting Roles in JWT a best practice?

The official JWT site explicitly mentions “authorization” (in contrast to “authentication”) as a usecase for JWTs: When should you use JSON Web Tokens? Authorization: This is the most common scenario for using JWT. Once the user is logged in, each subsequent request will include the JWT, allowing the user to access routes, services, and resources … Read more

How do I return an image in fastAPI?

If you already have the bytes of the image in memory Return a fastapi.responses.Response with your custom content and media_type. You’ll also need to muck with the endpoint decorator to get FastAPI to put the correct media type in the OpenAPI specification. @app.get( “/image”, # Set what the media type will be in the autogenerated … Read more

How does Google Maps secure their API Key? How to make something similar?

The API key itself is most probably a one way hash of the domain the key is associated with and a secret only the Google API server knows about. It may contain some other pieces of well-known (to Google of course) information. When you make a request from that domain, the API server takes the … Read more

Storing authentication tokens on iOS – NSUserDefaults vs Keychain?

I would highly recommend you use the keychain – it’s exactly what Facebook do for storing their session tokens. NSUserDefaults is not secure or encrypted – it can be easily opened and read, both on device and when synced to a Mac. So whilst user defaults is a good place for things like preferences and … Read more

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