Abstract: The present invention provides a method for providing an application programming interface (API) intermediary for hypertext transfer protocol (http) web services having the following steps: receiving one or more API calls from one or more developer modules containing corresponding source IP addresses; analyzing the one or more API calls, the analysis having the step of copying all http data of the one or more API calls to a database, the http data containing respective destination IP addresses; and associating the one or more source IP addresses with the respective destination IP addresses for the one or more API calls.