REST API The Basics Before it can do anything with SharePoint, your remote Web or mobile application must obtain authorized access. In SharePoint 2013 there are two general approaches to authorizing access to a SharePoint site (regardless of whether you’re using REST). The first approach involves authenticating a SharePoint user, in which case your application has the same access to SharePoint data and capabilities as the user. The different ways you can authenticate a user from a Web or mobile application are outside the scope of this article, but we’ll briefly mention two new options in SharePoint 2013 because they affect the way you construct your REST requests: If you’re calling into SharePoint from a remotely hosted application that can’t use client-side code (HTML and JavaScript) exclusively, and there’s no firewall between SharePoint and your application, you can use OAuth 2.0 tokens with Microsoft Access Control Service (ACS) as the secure token server. If client-side ...
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