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bobtamayo
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5 years ago

How to test REST API with Login Authentication

Hi,   I am trying to test REST API. The login authentication has its own URI and it works when I test it. However, I have another URI but it requires the Login Authentication to execute first. So, ...
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richie
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Hey bobtamayo,

If i understand correctly you have 2 requests:

Request1 = request to generate auth token of some sort

Request2 = request that needs testing

You need to do some sort of property transfer of the token from Request1 to pass it to Request2 i'm guessing.

What have you setup so far to do this?

Cheers

Rich
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bobtamayo
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5 years ago

richie 

 

Thank you for the reply. For each Request, there's a Auth tab. So I just put the user and password there and it works.

 

 

 

 

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    richie
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    5 years ago
    ,

    What you described using adding the username and password into the fields (which then get base64 encoded and added to your Authorization header) is known as basic auth.

    Nice one

    Rich