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authorLin Jen-Shin <godfat@godfat.org>2017-05-23 02:10:29 +0800
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## Authentication
-All API requests require authentication via a session cookie or token. There are
-three types of tokens available: private tokens, OAuth 2 tokens, and personal
+Most API requests require authentication via a session cookie or token. For those cases where it is not required, this will be mentioned in the documentation
+for each individual endpoint. For example, the [`/projects/:id` endpoint](projects.md).
+There are three types of tokens available: private tokens, OAuth 2 tokens, and personal
access tokens.
If authentication information is invalid or omitted, an error message will be
@@ -303,6 +304,17 @@ Additional pagination headers are also sent back.
| `X-Next-Page` | The index of the next page |
| `X-Prev-Page` | The index of the previous page |
+## Namespaced path encoding
+
+If using namespaced API calls, make sure that the `NAMESPACE/PROJECT_NAME` is
+URL-encoded.
+
+For example, `/` is represented by `%2F`:
+
+```
+/api/v4/projects/diaspora%2Fdiaspora
+```
+
## `id` vs `iid`
When you work with the API, you may notice two similar fields in API entities:
@@ -398,7 +410,6 @@ Content-Type: application/json
}
```
-
## Clients
There are many unofficial GitLab API Clients for most of the popular