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Should a client / server share error codes?
I am in two minds about sharing client / server errors codes. We are writing both ends of the system, if our API was external this would not be possible, but that requirement is very unlikely.
So an ...
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Is there a secure way to ensure a data in an API endpoint of mine came from an Instagram endpoint?
Is there a way through encryption/keys/jwt or anything else to ensure that the data being sent through a POST request is only data coming from another request I made on the client to a 3rd party ...
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How is approval done in cors via preflight request?
As far as I have known in CORS, browser sends preflight with OPTIONS request to the server to gain approval for the real subsequent GET/POST request. Now, HTTP is sessionless. Is the custom header THE ...
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Client Side Filtering or Server Side Filtering
So I am building a web-app. The app will be hosted on heroku and I using a MEAN Stack for development. The main purpose of the app is to allow users to search through data and be able to find a ...
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How to manage potentially outdated data from WikiMedia API
I am writing a web application that pulls small parts of articles from Wikipedia and presents them to users.
I do not wish to delete entries of the articles because I do not want to be sending a ...
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