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dragonwriter on May 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?

> is it for security

Yes.

EDIT: specifically, it is do intercepting a request doesn’t allow you to issue new requests.

aszen on May 23, 2021 [–]

Isn't that what https provides. Or were the APIs creates before https was popular

j16sdiz on May 23, 2021 | [–]

The use case is different.

For example, S3. S3’s authentication scheme allow you create a limited used download link and passing to a untrusted user

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