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I need to develop a REST Web Service using ZEND Framework. I am new to this area. I would like to know how can I authenticate user’s requests to my web service. Assume I am giving a token to all the people who use my web service. I can ask them to pass the token on every request. But Please suggest me if there and standard / better way to implement authentication for REST web service.
Thank you.
Prasad
I usually include the token in the http header with each request then on the server parse the header and validate the token.
It’s also completely acceptable to do as you are suggesting and require the user to send the token as part of the GET/POST/PUT/DELETE request as you would with a standard page. I have seen others put the value in a COOKIE as well.