Whenever we are designing secure systems that needs authentication for API access, you must consider how your applications and users should authenticate themselves.
In this article, we’ll be discussing three different ways to achieve this: 

HTTP Bas...

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Using basic authentication for authenticating users is usually not recommended since sending the user credentials for every request is a bad practice. API keys are a way to authenticate an application accessing any API without referencing an actual user. OAuth specifies mechanisms where an application can ask a user for access to services on behalf of the user, and receive a token as proof.

Different ways to authenticate your APIs