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Thanks cmc, all good points and great food for thought. I've ended up taking a token/HMAC approach similar to the one you discussed above, rather like the S3 REST API authentication mechanism.

cantlin
– cantlin

2012-03-26 18:00:51 +00:00
Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 18:00
If you cache the token on the server, then isn't it essentially the same as the good old session id? Session id is short-lived and it is also attached to fast cache storage (if you implement it) to avoid hitting your DB on every request. True RESTful & stateless design should not have sessions, but if you are using a token as an ID and then still hitting the DB, then wouldn't it better just use session ID instead? Alternatively, you can go for JSON web tokens that contain encrypted or signed information for entire session data for true stateless design.

JustAMartin
– JustAMartin

2017-09-08 07:16:39 +00:00
Commented Sep 8, 2017 at 7:16

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