Securing an AJAX API to prevent other sites from taking advantage of it

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Published on 2010-06-05T22:05:15Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 22:12 UTC
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We're currently developing a site that uses a simple JSON API (RoR) to populate the page. The data is public to clients but key to our service and we want to make sure that our competitors aren't leeching our data. What methods do you use to verify that AJAX requests to an API are legitimate?

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