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2009 May 30
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Generating and authenticating by API keys
...to be done on the Site model to which Users belong),
2. generating the API key using Digest::SHA1 or similar (the last dev
used SHA1 for the passwords),
3. authenticating via API keys in a filter (perhaps something along the
lines of option 2 here
http://www.whatcodecraves.com/articles/2008/11/25/how_to_make_an_api_for_a_rails_app/).
Unfortunately, the authentication lib is custom (I would much prefer to
be working with one of the community adopted plugins such as Authlogic,
which appears to have API key authentication anyway).
Am I missing anything or does that sound like a reasonable starting
point?
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