Authorization Tag For Basic BASE64 Encoding
According to the 3.x documentation, I should be able to set global security authentication using the Authorization Object: Basic authentication is a simple authentication scheme built into the HTTP...
Hi KF4UYC
You can indeed configure an OpenAPI description to mandate BASE64 auth.
First, add a `basic` security scheme to the components object
components: securitySchemes: basicAuth: type: http scheme: basicNext, add a security section to apply the scheme to all API paths
security: - basicAuth: []Once done, if you you can 'authorize' (enter username / pw) via Swagger UI
I've put together a very simple API to showcase at: Simple API with Basic Auth
If possible, I'd move onto something more robust that basic auth, but I'm assuming your constrained by the vendor in this case.
