How to design a RESTful API to check for user's credentials?

Question

I\'m designing an API for a mobile app, and I hope to keep it RESTful.
API\'s are authorized using Basic HTTP Auth, however, When the user open the app for the first time, h

Answer 1

A good approach is to perform a GET request for the account/profile info of the current user. and have it return the username, settings, avatar url, etc. me is a frequently used as a shorthand identifier of the authenticating user.

GET https://api.example.com/profiles/me
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
{
  "username": "bob",
  "id": "xyz",
  "created_at": 123,
  "image_url": "https://example.com/bob.png"
}