I have an iPhone app that uses a Rails server HTTP API. The API is public at this point - no authorisation is required to get the data.
Currently anyone can go to API's URL and download the data.
http://server.com/mydata
The data is not very sensitive. But I still want to prevent people from easily getting it. What are the ways of doing that? I do not want iOS app users to log in either.
iPhone app adds a secret token to the HTTP header or query of the request. The data goes over HTTPS.
https://server.com/mydata?secret=my_secret
Is there a better approach?
You could try an approach where the client is only allowed X number of requests per time period (based on IP address or username)
HTTPS is extremely easy to man in the middle on a device you control. You can do SSL cert validation, but there is always someone out there with more time, so best off to handle it server side.
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