Pro PHP Security: From Application Security Principles to the Implementation of XSS Defenses, Second Edition

C H A P T E R  8

Securing REST Services

In this chapter, we discuss REST services and how to keep them secure.

REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is an architecture that allows clients to request information from a server and then receive appropriate responses in different data formats. The responses themselves are representations of resources, such as a list of status updates from a Twitter user's timeline, that can be delivered as XML or JSON strings.

It's important to note that when we talk about REST in this chapter, we are specifically referring to server-to-server communication or application-to-server communication, not merely a human ...