Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Some Suggestions for Choosing a Token Format for RESTful Web Services

Some Suggestions for Choosing a Token Format for RESTful Web Services:
The most important token format that you need to support for your web apis and RESTful web services these days is: anything. So many platforms define their own authentication/authorization mechanism with what seems to be little concern for standardized formats: API keys here, HMAC signatures there, various OAuth interpretation, etc. Simple does trump standards. For the integration-focused enterprise architect, this reality creates a need for flexible infrastructure supporting arbitrary token formats.

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