Salutations!
I have just completed my first REST API, deployed on heroku, and I decided it would be cool to make $0 a month through rapidAPI.
The rapidAPI testing dashboard passes the tests successfully - with one of their keys being a requirement for an API call.
However when I access the site on a browser or on Postman, there is no need for an API key and therefore no restrictions in get requests.
I have noticed that the test code makes a fetch request to the rapidAPI url for the project but how can I make the heroku url accessible only from rapidAPI?
I know it's extremely unlikely someone will find my heroku app url but it is technically possible.
I appreciate your time and insights.
RapidAPI provides 2 security features to support this:
set X-RapidAPI-Proxy-Secretin the API Dashboard: this token is added in the X-RapidAPI-Proxy-Secret HTTP header for each request. You should validate this for every API call. This is the default measure in place.
the list of IP addresses used by RapidAPI is provided: you can check/validate for every API call.
There might be Heroku Addon to help with the IP filtering, but those are typically enterprise-plugin (with associated cost).
RapidAPI allows you to add secret headers and/or query string parameters to API requests. The RapidAPI proxy adds these secrets to every request, but are hidden from the API consumers.
Find more details in this page: https://docs.rapidapi.com/docs/secret-headers-parameters
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Single page application with specific organizational service accounts uses microsoft authorization (2.0).
To pretend in JMeter as user working with this application, it is enough to have Bearer access_token and then pass this Bearer in header of JMeter script requests.
I can manually login with user credentials in browser, get Bearer and set up it as variable in JMeter in API requests headers and successfully continue to work with application functionality.
Also I can login in WebDriverSampler (and I suppose, can emulate with WebDriverSampler another user's actions with application like in "browser").
What is the simplest and shortest way, having all above, to get Bearer somehow for API calls in a script without time-consuming or programming-oriented complex solutions? Is it possible somehow to use WebDriverSampler requests for parsing Bearer?
On this stage, the goal is to collect (and generate) Bearers, which have long time of life, with intention to use this set of Bearers for multi-session JMeter "users" later. (Because users amount is under cost constrtaints with users service accounts, i.e. I have 1 provided user only).
Will be very appreciated for grace tips and advices with such kind of problem.
It should be possible to use i.e. BrowserMob Proxy for capturing the traffic between the browser orchestrated by the WebDriver Sampler and the backend, this way you will be able to extract Authorization header value and i.e. store it into a CSV file for later re-use.
In general it should also be possible to replicate the browser's authentication flow with JMeter's HTTP Request samplers as browsers don't do any magic, they just send HTTP Requests and display the responses so well-behaved JMeter test should generate the same network footprint as the real browser does
I have recorded a login flow of an application and found some URIs like below:
/api/oauth2/initiate GET
/oauth2/authorize GET
/api/v1/oauth2/authorize GET
/api/v1/oauth2/authenticate POST
{"username":"${Username}","password":"${Password}","client_id":"${client_Id}","response_type":"code","redirect_uri":"${scheme}://${host}/api/oauth2/callback","server_id":"${server_Id}"}
When I am hitting above in sequence via JMeter I am getting 200 response. Just like JMeter I tried recording in Postman and it worked same, but instead of JSON it gave response in XML format.
It doesn't generate a access_token, it works via session cookies.
My question is - Do I really have API access or it is just browser record n play? If Yes, Does this mean I can get access to any API, if I am a registered user of that application? For ex: Facebook, YouTube or any startup website.
JMeter works on the protocol level. This means that whatever request you are generating. Say a simple browser request or an API call, you can do that easily.
Now the thing is replicating requests. You don't need to record the requests necessarily using the browser. You need to analyze the few things that are required. Say Postman is generating a request. You specify the things you want to send and you use the API Token there. The same things can be specified there as well. It all depends on how you are understanding the concept of request generation.
You simply need to replicate the samplers and the parameters. And the request headers in postman can be replicated here in the same way.
For each HTTP Request Sampler make sure you add a corresponding child HTTP Header Manager config element.
Headers basically tell the server that what client we are using and in what form data is being sent and then server responds accordingly with the information.
What you're recorded is OAuth2 flow and you won't be able to replay it without correlating the dynamic values.
You can have access to Google API or Facebook Graph API given you have proper access_token but I don't think you should be testing them directly, you should focus on solely your application.
I am trying to make a post call in Exact Online REST API. I'm trying to create a SalesInvoiceLine. I can perfectly do a GET call via my browser. I am logged in in Exact Online so I don't need authentication since this should be passed via a cookie. I tried POST via a browser. The browser prompts me to login, when I do nothing happens. I've also tried this in Postman:
I am 100% certain these initials are correct, I can login with them in Exact Online. What am I doing wrong?
If this is not the way, how can I post data to Exact Online? There are not that many concrete examples to find online.
You can't log on to the Exact Online REST API with Basic authentication, the mode you are using now.
The web service uses OAuth as authentication mechanism, meaning you have to acquire a token first. The steps to do so are outlined in the official documentation.
It will need some work on your end to register an app, get the flow up and running. Depending on your business needs, you might be helped with one of the apps for Exact Online by the company I work for.
You need to retrieve the CurrentDivision through GET Request https://{Base Uri}/api/v1/current/Me only from OAuth then you need to assign
CurrentDivision to whatever may be the API call .../api/v1/{CurrentDivision}/../....
Without authorization by Auth 2.0, neither is impossible.
To authorize the ExactOnline API calls you have to do the following:
Register the app in the developer portal. Bear in mind that you have to do a separate registration for French, UK or Dutch version of ExactOnline (this is indeed a pain).
In case you want your application to be used by other accounts than yours, you have to submit the app for validation, this usually takes 2-3 weeks.
EO uses standard OAuth 2.0 schema (very similar to what Google is using with their services). You have to use endpoint GET /api/oauth2/auth for building an authorization link and endpoint POST /api/oauth2/token for obtaining both access and refresh tokens.
Please bear in mind that many Auth 2.0 services are proving long-lasting refresh token. This is not the case of EO. The refresh token is invalidated every time when the access token is requested (endpoint POST /api/oauth2/token). With access token new refresh token is supplied, so make sure you update you refresh token as well.
The access token is placed in HTTP header as "Authorization: Bearer {{ACCESS_TOKEN}}"
In case you want to automate the EO API calls and do not want to code anything on your own, you can try one of the pre-build Exact Online API connectors, created by the company I work for.
I am trying to make requests to the Nike+ API to get information but I do not know where to get a long-term access token from.
I know that I am making the actual request correctly (using AJAX) because I send the same request that Nike+ send when using their test console (I take it from the Chrome network tab when the test console sends). This request works for about an hour before saying the token has expired.
How do I get a long-term token? I have looked around the API and can't find it which makes me think I am missing something pretty obvious here.
Update (12/09/2016)
I need to have a client id to start making the implicit flow requests. I took one from the network tab of the chrome browser (from when I logged in) and used it as a parameter(as well as other things) for the first api call but it said it couldn't load partner details.
Any ideas? Am i even allowed to do what I want to do?
Nike+ API uses OAuth 2 for authentication. In his API there is no long-term token, but you can use refresh_token (30 days) to get new access_token (bound with expired_in) when your authentication expires and get unauthorized response. You can read more at Nike+ API documentation.
all,
I need a little bit of guidance here. I have a Polymer frontend that handles Google oAuth to allow the user in the app. The front end captures the user's email address from oAuth and uses that for GET requests to a Flask API that I built on the backend. I did not build authentication into my Flask API because I didn't think I needed to since I have Polymer as the gatekeeper. I realized though that folks can see the source code and retried the API URL to use if they wanted to capture other user's data.
I am looking for guidance on how I can lock down the API backend given I am only using Google oAuth on the front end.
Thank you,
Marcos
I am not sure if this is the correct answer, but I will post my result anyway. If wrong, send feedback. I am going to have my frontend send the user's access token from the auth process in the header with every API call. My backend API will take that access token and use it to query the Google API to find what email address the token was created by. If the email matches the email the API call is requesting data for, data will be returned. If not, it will return an error.