Can I have a public APEX REST API e.g. APEX REST api that is accessible without authentication?

Attribution to: Dedo

Possible Suggestion/Solution #1

Yes you can. You will need to configure a public site and make the webservice available through it. There is an excellent tip on the developerforce blogs explaining it in more detail.

I implemented this a few months ago and ran into some issues, but did get it running :). The biggest of which is that your request must have the proper Content-Type Salesforce restful webservices reject x-www-form-urlencoded and refactoring the legacy system was a bit of a problem.

Attribution to: Daniel Blackhall
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