I have a question more about the security of using the API because I think I’m missing some trivial concept with my lack of experience. I have a headless implementation of discourse to integrate into my frontend and I’ve successfully enabled sso for user authentication. My initial understanding wa…

[immagine] BrainFried: a headless implementation of discourse to integrate into my frontend [immagine] BrainFried: isn’t this easy for a hacker to just modify the api-username in the header to retrieve chat discussions for any user? An Admin API key is the key to the kingdom [immagine…

[immagine] BrainFried: If my understanding is correct, isn’t this easy for a hacker to just modify the api-username in the header to retrieve chat discussions for any user? You should never use that API from a frontend because in that case this indeed is a risk (actually the risk is much high…

As a headless implementation, I will be running this from my front end. So, in this case it seems like I need spend some time trying to decipher the discussion on this topic then: [immagine] User API keys specification Integrations Discourse contains a system …

Confusione sull'utente autenticato dell'API

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supermathie (Michael Brown) 31 Maggio 2024, 2:57am 2

Una chiave API di Amministratore è la chiave del regno

Non metterla da nessuna parte in un’app frontend. Se l’hai fatto, ti consiglio di revocarla immediatamente.

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API endpoint users/by-external/ failing with authorization headers, works without Bug rest-api	2	656	Giugno 26, 2023
Create apikey for user programmatically as admin Development rest-api	8	2150	Febbraio 26, 2024
Allow API use by regular users, not just admins Development rest-api	6	1565	Febbraio 14, 2023
Work with discourse users on an SPA Development	2	1289	Gennaio 13, 2022
The purpose of the 2 Discourse API systems Support	5	1533	Giugno 24, 2020

Confusione sull'utente autenticato dell'API

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