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Asked: 2026-05-11T00:34:54+00:00

Some existing web services I consume have methods that look something like this: List<Employee>

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Some existing web services I consume have methods that look something like this:

List<Employee> employees =          employeeService.GetEmployees(accessKey, allDepartments);

The accessKey serves two purposes; it acts as both authentication and identification. Only valid access codes are responded to (authentication) and it services as a link to a particular client’s data.

If the services were to be done a restful manner I’m not sure how this would be achieved. I definitely would not want to do something like this:

http://www.business.com/<GuidHere>/Employees/

Since this would show the accessKey, which is somewhat secret, (ie, its usually in an encrypted file on the client which uses this) we can’t show the GUID in a URI. How is something like this achieved using a restful architecture?

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  1. You could send the authentication token using HTTP headers.

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