How is the authentication handled in the API? API's should have a stateless
authentication. Web browsers maintain a session via cookies. API should not
be needed to do that
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On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Jeremy Burns
wrote:
> We've had an error that took a while to trace, and whilst we've solved it
> I'd like to get a better understanding of what was happening behind the
> scenes.
>
> We're building an app that also acts as an API for an iOS app. Profile
> pictures are stored inside the /webroot/img folder, and the path to them is
> stored in the users table. When the users table points to an image that no
> longer exists (as happened when we moved from a test to a beta server) the
> web handles the error gracefully. If the url to a missing image is placed
> in a browser address bar we get a missing ImgController error, but the user
> remains logged in. When the iOS app tries to retrieve a missing image (and
> the error is not handled correctly) the user is being logged out. We've
> rectified the error by changing the iOS code but I'm keen to understand
> what might have been happened inside the Session. Can anyone shed any light
> please?
>
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