API authentication procedure using tokens and session token
I am using a web service that uses the following authentication process for the API calls.
POST to fqdn/login_users with Basic Auth "user name, password" (https of course)
returns a (rather long) token.POST to fqdn/users/login with the header Authorization Token token=
returns a different user name, (short) session token with bunch of other informational stuff like last login time, validity period etc.API calls using the returned user name and session token in Basic Auth header.
I am trying to understand the rationale behind this approach.
First of all this is a common pattern used in API authentication ?
Instead of the two step process why not return the session token as a response for the first "login_users" API ?
Instead of using the original user id why return a different user id in the 2nd step and use that in the subsequent API calls ?
api authentication jwt basic-authentication
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
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I am using a web service that uses the following authentication process for the API calls.
POST to fqdn/login_users with Basic Auth "user name, password" (https of course)
returns a (rather long) token.POST to fqdn/users/login with the header Authorization Token token=
returns a different user name, (short) session token with bunch of other informational stuff like last login time, validity period etc.API calls using the returned user name and session token in Basic Auth header.
I am trying to understand the rationale behind this approach.
First of all this is a common pattern used in API authentication ?
Instead of the two step process why not return the session token as a response for the first "login_users" API ?
Instead of using the original user id why return a different user id in the 2nd step and use that in the subsequent API calls ?
api authentication jwt basic-authentication
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
add a comment |
I am using a web service that uses the following authentication process for the API calls.
POST to fqdn/login_users with Basic Auth "user name, password" (https of course)
returns a (rather long) token.POST to fqdn/users/login with the header Authorization Token token=
returns a different user name, (short) session token with bunch of other informational stuff like last login time, validity period etc.API calls using the returned user name and session token in Basic Auth header.
I am trying to understand the rationale behind this approach.
First of all this is a common pattern used in API authentication ?
Instead of the two step process why not return the session token as a response for the first "login_users" API ?
Instead of using the original user id why return a different user id in the 2nd step and use that in the subsequent API calls ?
api authentication jwt basic-authentication
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
I am using a web service that uses the following authentication process for the API calls.
POST to fqdn/login_users with Basic Auth "user name, password" (https of course)
returns a (rather long) token.POST to fqdn/users/login with the header Authorization Token token=
returns a different user name, (short) session token with bunch of other informational stuff like last login time, validity period etc.API calls using the returned user name and session token in Basic Auth header.
I am trying to understand the rationale behind this approach.
First of all this is a common pattern used in API authentication ?
Instead of the two step process why not return the session token as a response for the first "login_users" API ?
Instead of using the original user id why return a different user id in the 2nd step and use that in the subsequent API calls ?
api authentication jwt basic-authentication
api authentication jwt basic-authentication
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
asked Nov 20 '18 at 21:04
ManoharManohar
1,39172746
1,39172746
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