Appsierra With business projects that deal with highly user-sensitive data and require login procedures to be fulfilled for accessing the applications, API authentication is something that businesses always look out for. The practice of integrating APIs in your project is to ensure that access to data is happening in a secured way. What is API Authentication? In technical terms, it means to first identify the identity of the user who is making the request call to the server followed by the verification if the user has the access to the specific information that he/she is looking for. Therefore, authentication needs to happen before checking for user authorization. There are various methods through which this authentication process is carried out…..Learn more Different API Authentication Methods HTTP Authentication The HTTP authentication method is further classified into two categories as follows: • Basic Authentication This is a very basic form of authentication. It requires the user or the application to send username and password details in the HTTP header where these are encrypted with Base64 while making the request call to the server….Learn more • Bearer Tokens Bearer tokens authentication method is an HTTP authentication scheme that works with generated tokens for every request made to the secured API servers. As the name implies, in layman terms it means that the access to be given to the bearer of the token…..Learn more API Key Authentication In this web API authentication method, the client sends a unique key (a combination of numbers and letters) shared by the API server providers in the requested URL or HTTP header. Using this key the identification of the project is stamped and access is granted to the client. API Key Authentication method is used to overcome the security problems that come with the Basic HTTP authentication methods by sharing the user credentials in the requested URL. OAuth Authentication The OAuth authentication method is known to be the most popular and in-demand authentication methodologies in the current times. However, the latest version of this technique OAuth 2.0 is known to be far more practical and powerful than its older versions. But we’ll come to those differences later in this article…..Continue reading
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