Proposal: Discontinue the exozyme API #162
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I don't know how many of you were aware that we even had a REST API for exozyme, but we do! It's also full of security holes #147. The main use currently of the API is for registering new users, but I think it's equally fine to do this by email like we used to do.
Basically, the new registration flow would look like this:
passwd
.The advantage of this process is that we don't need to maintain a lot of API code like we currently do.
Here are the main advantages of discontinuing the API:
Here are some disadvantages:
I think we'll just go with discontinuing the API for now. If you would like to maintain it in the future, please reopen this issue!
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