Firebase – What is the API Key

In Firebase, when we sign up , it gives us an API key for each firebase Url. But where is it used in a consuming application? The fireBase API does not provide any means to supply API Key. Security : What prevents anyone to go ahead and write any object to the given firebase Url? How … Read more

What is an Endpoint?

All of the answers posted so far are correct, an endpoint is simply one end of a communication channel. In the case of OAuth, there are three endpoints you need to be concerned with: Temporary Credential Request URI (called the Request Token URL in the OAuth 1.0a community spec). This is a URI that you … Read more