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use API keys for API authentication #184

Closed anandology closed 8 years ago

anandology commented 8 years ago

Have a page /account/api-keys to generate or regenerate API keys.

Code the necessary utilities for doing the authentication using API keys and provide a simple API endpoint demonstrating the use of API keys.

anandology commented 8 years ago

Please remember that API keys will be a temporary measure until we implement full-fledged OAuth based authentication for APIs.

anandology commented 8 years ago

Using Personal API tokens with basic-auth seems like much simpler approach than using API keys.

With this approach, we could just use curl with basic auth for accessing the API. for example:

curl -u someone@example.com http://test.missionvistaar.in/api/user

That would prompt for the password and user will enter the personal API token there.

anandology commented 8 years ago

Good enough for now.