Authentication service
A simple authentication service.
Why?
Educational purposes.
API
Sign up
Create a new user.
Example
How to sign up a user with username johndoe:
POST /users/johndoe HTTP/1.1
[...]
{
"firstName": "John",
"password": "correcthorsebatterystaple"
}
Log in
Exchange client credentials for a session token.
Example
How to sign in using johndoe's credentials:
POST /users/johndoe/sessions HTTP/1.1
[...]
{
"password": "correcthorsebatterystaple"
}
Log out
Invalidate a session token.
Example
How to invalidate session with id 12tndiu2t3hudicau.
DELETE /sessions/12tndiu2t3hudicau HTTP/1.1
[...]
Authorization: 12tndiu2t3hudicau
Read current user attributes
Retrieve current user attributes.
Example
How to retrieve attributes of currently logged in user. 12tndiu2t3hudicau is a valid session token obtained through log in.
GET /user HTTP/1.1
[...]
Authorization: 12tndiu2t3hudicau