My project include a web application, a mobile app and a REST API module. The mobile app is made with Ionic 3 for android and uses a REST API located to an address like example.com/api.php on a server with https. The API has access to a MySQL database. For the users who access the API I have to cr…

Very often this is done with JWT or a token based OAuth system. You login at a freely available endpoint. If it works, you get something back that you send with all other requests. The backend can use the “something” to find out if you logged in successfully before.

How to secure a REST API between mobile app and the server

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Sujan12 October 12, 2017, 2:11pm 4

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