Basic authentication

Authenticate with Basic
Use the authentication-basic policy to authenticate with a backend service using basic authentication. This policy effectively sets the HTTP Authorization header to the value corresponding to the credentials provided in the policy.
Policy statement
XML
<authentication-basic username="username" password="password" />
Example
XML
<authentication-basic username="testuser" password="testpassword" />
Elements
Name
Description
Required
authentication-basic
Root element
Yes
Attributes
Name
Description
Required
Default
username
Specifies the username of the basic credential
Yes
N/A
password
Specifies the password of the basic credential
Yes
N/A
Usage
This policy can be used in the inbound policy scopes.
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Policy statement

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