On Dec 27, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Bruce Wade wrote: > Every device will have it's own login, just like every member has their own > login. The accounts would be created on the website/server. > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Dec 27, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Bruce Wade wrote: > >> I am planing a web2py web services that will allow my custom android app to >> communicate together. My primary concern is how would I secure it? IE: Have >> it so applications need to login in order to interact? Any documentation you >> can point me to would be helpful. >> > > Will each device have its own login account? How will the account be created > (from the app? on the website?)? >
I'd consider using JSON-RPC or XML-RPC and basic auth. Here's a thread dealing with a bug in that process that has some useful examples: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/lLCCUrwB5x0 Depending on how secure you need to be, https might be a good idea as well.
