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I aked a company for API access and they asked for IPs to whitelist (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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How do I find out what IPs to give, my IP doesnt stay the same? The local IP is hardly the one they want, it wouldnt make sense I think.

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[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why would one do either? By whitelisting you entirely prevent traffic. API auth takes processing. How wrong is it? Maybe for your home usage it’s good enough but layering measures has value…

[–] Archer@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It means you’re doing boutique instead of scalable, and/or they don’t know how to deal with the traffic and auth infrastructure

[–] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

scalable has cost and you only want to engage costs when it comes with benefits. Preventing non legitimate traffic is complementary to scalability. Just don't pay for illegitimate traffic...