JSON through Services View- Authenticating through Parameters when accessing JSON through external app

Question

My Drupal site is generating JSON through Views. I am using Services for that.

It is something like this:-

http://www.asite.com/api/views/all-date.json

Now the problem is that I want to restrict anyone from writing that URL in the any browser and retrieving all data.

Do you think there is a way to authenticate it?

Probably, in my external app, when I am accessing the data, I can add parameters to it so that it can only send data when it has right authentication.

Something like this:-

http://www.asite.com/api/views/all-date.json/?username=me&password=mine

I'll be grateful if you could help.

Answer 1

There exit many ways of authentication through services module.

The easiest is to use session authentication by authenticating the user using his username & password, Then let the app send the cookie header in each request with the session id like COOKIE: SESS_ID:SESS_name.

Or use that module that seems matching your approach a lot services_basic_auth

Another way is to authenticate the app itself by letting the app get an access token using a secret app id and password created on the website. using oauth2

Examples for auth methods