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I'm exposing a simple API and need to make sure only authorized users access it. I will be providing an API key to authenticate. However, I also want to associate the API key to a certain domain (meaning, it should only work if it's being used from the authorized domain(s)).
How do I check on the API side if it is being accessed from an authorized domain? HTTP_REFERER apparently is not reliable. Suggestions?
HTTP+SSL is a complex protocol set that supports certificates for both server and the client, and probably could be used in this case, but somehow I feel this would be an overkill.
What kind of API are you exposing? There are many different kinds of APIs - I assume you do not expose your operating system's API...
Assuming you want to expose some web application's API, you may take a look at OAuth, which is based on callback URLs - you can just block certain domains from being called through callback URL.
Read more about OAuth.
you want the source IP address
REMOTE_ADDR -or- HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR