With Javascript front-end technologies, we are building APIs for the back-end. Our back-end is exclusively designed for frontend mobile apps. Authentication is one of the major part of aweb application. The two best solutions to authentication problems for APIs are the OAuth 2.0 and JWT (JSON...
OAuth doesn't ask the user to authenticate, instead, it authorizes access to other apps and resources. A good way to review the working mechanism of this protocol is by looking at the analogy of a valet key. The valet key is designed to give a valet access to drive your car, but ...
The Google Developers Console can be complicated to get right, and it's one of the reasons I sometimes have resistance into using one of the Google APIs. This article aims to make it simple to useThis article explains how to use the Google Developers Console to authenticate to any of the...
How to authenticate to Azure DevOps PATs API?Federico Crovetto 20 Reputation points Jan 29, 2025, 2:43 AM I'm creating an Azure Function in Node.js which needs to list, create and delete Azure DevOps PAT's, but as the title says, I'm having troubles with authentication / authorization...
The first step is to add code to handle a response from the resource API rejecting the call due to CAE. With CAE, APIs will return a 401 status and a WWW-Authenticate header when the access token has been revoked or the API detects a change in IP address used. The WWW-Authenticate he...
You will be fetching data from APIs using React. You can learn about working with APIs inHow To Call Web APIs with the useEffect Hook in React. You will also need a basic knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, which you can find in ourHow To Build a Website With HTML series,How ...
In this article, we are building a simple application, to demonstrate how to authenticate a user using facial recognition. In this process, we are going to use FaceIO APIs. Why we need facial recognition-based authentication The need for facial recognition is multifold. I am trying to put up...
3D Secure 2 has been developed with smartphones in consideration, allowing banks to update their authentication methods. For example, customers might authenticate a payment using their fingerprint or face ID, instead of traditional passwords or text messages. This new technology promotes a better trans...
The access key ID (AK) and secret access key (SK) are a pair of access keys used together to authenticate users who wish to make API requests. The AK/SK pair provides fun
When you configure ASP.NET for Windows authentication, it can be coupled with IIS authentication where IIS authenticates your application's users by using Basic authentication, Integrated Windows authentication, Digest authentication, or Client Certificate authentication. Both Integrated Windows authentication...