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Building Microservices with Go
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Building Microservices with Go

by Nic Jackson
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
358 pages
10h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Authorization - string

Authorization is one of the most commonly used request headers, even if you have a public read only API I advise you to ask the user to authorize their requests. By requesting that the user authorizes a request, you have the capability to perform operations such as user level logging and rate limiting. Quite often you may see authorization conducted with a custom request header such as "X-API-Authorization". I would recommend you do not use this approach as the standard Authorization header as specified by the W3C RFC 2616 (https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html) has all the capability we need. Many companies such as Twitter and PayPal use this header to authenticate requests let's. Let's look at a ...

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