Rest API

The Flowster Password Portal uses the Rest API to allow clients (browser applications) to communicate with a server. Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are a standardized way for two applications to exchange data, this allows our application to easily integrate with other applications using only their respective APIs.

 REST stands for Representational State Transfer and defines a set of rules that developers follow when creating their API. An example is that when a client makes a field request for a resource the REST APIs return all relevant information about the resource, translated into a format that clients can easily interpret and this format is determined by the API that receives the requests, usually REST APIs accept JSON for payload request and send responses to JSON.

Since an API is an entity that can accept and respond to requests for protected resources from users and clients, they must be equipped to ensure that applications and clients attempting to access data are authentic, so that they can proceed to full authorized access when identity is confirmed, and the process of certifying the identity of users attempting to access resources on the server is known as API authentication.  Authentication is when an entity verifies the identity of a user, it proves that clients trying to access a remote server are really who they say they are.