Overview of HTTP Basic Authentication Connector

Release Notes

API Management Release Date	Release Type	Release Description
July 2, 2020	Improvement	Support of 401 (Unauthorized) status code and WWW-Authenticate header field for an empty Authorization header in HTTP Basic Authentication Connector. Improvement is in compliance to RFC for an empty authorization header in API request needed for HTTP Basic Authentication.
	Improvement	Optional configuration parameter to keep API Management proxy platform default response codes for backward compatibility.

Description

• Connector provides HTTP Basic Authentication support between call from user client and Cloud API Management gateway.

• In the HTTP Basic Authentication, base64 encoded user ID and password separated by : and concatenated with Basic sent in Authorization header from client end, and credentials are validated at Cloud API Management gateway.

• Basic Authentication credentials are configurable using Cloud API Management package key(client_id/username) and secret (client_secret/password).

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• Usage

• Design and Implementation

• Configuring Endpoint Call Processing as a Processor:

  • Configuring Basic Credentials
  • Configuring Endpoint Call Processing

• Configuring Endpoint Call Processing as an Authenticator:

  • Configuring Basic Credentials

  • Configuring Endpoint Call Processing

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