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Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by dragonwriter on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:06PM (#27248895)
> is it for security

Yes.

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

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Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by aszen on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:27PM (#27252175)
Isn't that what https provides. Or were the APIs creates before https was popular
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Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by j16sdiz on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:23AM (#27253917)
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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