Skip to Content
Secure APIs
book

Secure APIs

by Jose Haro
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
11h 39m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Secure APIs

appendix C API security RFCs and learning resources

A great deal of API security is dealing with standards and protocols. Those standards and protocols are described in formal documents called Request for Comments (RFCs), which are published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Throughout this book, we have made references to many RFCs that describe how Open Authorization works, what JSON Web Tokens look like, what JSON Web Keys are, and so on. And by this point, you may be wondering, “Damn, where is that RFC that describes what JSON Web Keys are?” Well, wonder no more. In this appendix, I’ve put together the most important RFCs that you, as an API security practitioner, should know about, and I highly encourage you to read through ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Microservice APIs

Microservice APIs

Jose Haro
Cloud Native Data Security with OAuth

Cloud Native Data Security with OAuth

Gary Archer, Judith Kahrer, Michał Trojanowski
Microservices Security in Action

Microservices Security in Action

Prabath Siriwardena, Wajjakkara Kankanamge Anthony Nuwan Dias

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781633436633Publisher SupportPublisher WebsiteErrata Page