What would be the “correct HTTP verb” to use when developing a RESTful API to handle login information? This API would be accessible from various devices/platforms – mobile app, desktop web app, desktop native app, etc.
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What would be the “correct HTTP verb” to use when developing a RESTful API to handle login information? This API would be accessible from various devices/platforms – mobile app, desktop web app, desktop native app, etc.
I assume that by API Login you mean a way to authenticate an API user and any calls to your API endpoints.
You could probably use OAuth or Basic Authentication to do that or let say you have an API endpoint at
api\authenticate. The caller wouldPOSTto this endpoint with userID and password or some API key. The service would then return a cookie or authentication token that would be sent with every call to other API endpoints. The HP Cloud Identity service works pretty much the same way.