Basic Authentication

Defines the authentication details to authorise to a webservice authenticating with Basic Authentication.

ID

The id of the Basic Authentication

Description

A friendly description of the authentication.

User Id

The user name to authenticate with.

Password

The corresponding password to User Id field.

Header Token

The token in the HTTP request header identifying the base 64 encoded user/password string. In most scenarios the basic authentication hash is identified with the value of ‘Authorization’, however some webservices may require an alternative header token.

Authentication Prefix

This is text string preceding the base 64 encoded username and password. Typically this should be left as the default of ‘Basic’

Additional Tokens

Additional header tokens may be required to authenticate. Where this is the case they can be specified here in the form of:

token=tokenvalue

Separate each token name and value pair with a semi-colon ';' if multiple tokens need to be specified.

token1=tokenvalue1;token2=tokenvalue2;

Test Url

The URL used when the test function is invoked. This Url should expect a GET request, otherwise an error may be reported even when the authentication succeeds.

Test Button

Will test the supplied details can successfully authenticate using the Test Url.