Python request with authentication (access_token)

The requests package has a very nice API for HTTP requests, adding a custom header works like this (source: official docs): >>> import requests >>> response = requests.get( … ‘https://website.example/id’, headers={‘Authorization’: ‘access_token myToken’}) If you don’t want to use an external dependency, the same thing using urllib2 of the standard library looks like this (source: … Read more

EditText underline below text property

It’s actually fairly easy to set the underline color of an EditText programmatically (just one line of code). To set the color: editText.getBackground().setColorFilter(color, PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN); To remove the color: editText.getBackground().clearColorFilter(); Note: when the EditText has focus on, the color you set won’t take effect, instead, it has a focus color. API Reference: Drawable#setColorFilter Drawable#clearColorFilter

Single Sign On across multiple domains [closed]

The SSO solution that I’ve implemented here works as follows: There is a master domain, login.mydomain.example with the script master_login.php that manages the logins. Each client domain has the script client_login.php All the domains have a shared user session database. When the client domain requires the user to be logged in, it redirects to the … Read more

.NET Core Identity Server 4 Authentication VS Identity Authentication

TL;DR IdentityServer = token encryption and validation services via OAuth 2.0/OpenId-Connect ASP.NET Identity = current Identity Management strategy in ASP.NET How can I authenticate similar to the way done in previous version’s of .Net does the old way still work or is there a newer version. I see no reason why you couldn’t achieve the … Read more

Facebook access token server-side validation for iPhone app

Here’s a two step process you can use to validate that a user access token belongs to your App: 1) Generate an App Access token (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/login-as-app/) https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token? client_id=YOUR_APP_ID &client_secret=YOUR_APP_SECRET &grant_type=client_credentials 2) Debug the User Access token (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/login/debugging-access-tokens/) https://graph.facebook.com/debug_token? input_token=INPUT_TOKEN &access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN Where INPUT_TOKEN is the user access token you want to verify, and ACCESS_TOKEN is your … Read more

Redirecting to previous page after authentication in node.js using passport.js

In your ensureAuthenticated method save the return url in the session like this: … req.session.returnTo = req.originalUrl; res.redirect(‘/login’); … Then you can update your passport.authenticate route to something like: app.get(‘/auth/google/return’, passport.authenticate(‘google’), function(req, res) { res.redirect(req.session.returnTo || “https://stackoverflow.com/”); delete req.session.returnTo; });

How to login and authenticate to Postgresql after a fresh install?

There are two methods you can use. Both require creating a user and a database. By default psql connects to the database with the same name as the user. So there is a convention to make that the “user’s database”. And there is no reason to break that convention if your user only needs one … Read more

RESTful web service – how to authenticate requests from other services?

After reading your question, I would say, generate special token to do request required. This token will live in specific time (lets say in one day). Here is an example from to generate authentication token: (day * 10) + (month * 100) + (year (last 2 digits) * 1000) for example: 3 June 2011 (3 … Read more