Re: Re: Allowing multiple, simultaneous, non-blocking queries.
| From: | Nathan Rixham | Date: | Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:35:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Allowing multiple, simultaneous, non-blocking queries. | ||
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Phpster wrote:
> I am interested in how you are handling security in this process. How
> are you managing sessions with the restful interface? This is the one
> thing that really interests me with the whole restful approach.
one doesn't do sessions with rest :)
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm
95% of the time the uri's don't need any security or "session" type
stuff as it's all public data (think about it, if it's on a page, it's
naturally public)
with regards security; personally I use client side ssl certificates and
call through https (and further foaf+ssl) however any old
basic/digest/whatever authentication will do.
the major point of rest is to expose everything needed via GET on URIs,
(hypermedia as the engine of application state); URIs are not GETable at
a later date if they require session data. Hence why you pass or prompt
for any needed credentials; and further abstract the security in to the
transport layer (or tunnel, in the case of https).
regards!