HTTP Basic Authentication Connector
Release Notes
| TIBCO Cloud Mashery 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 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7617) for an empty authorization header in API request needed for HTTP Basic Authentication. |
| Improvement | Optional configuration parameter to keep TIBCO Cloud Mashery proxy platform default response codes for backward compatibility. |
Description
- Connector provides HTTP Basic Authentication support between call from user client and Mashery 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 TIBCO Mashery gateway.
- Basic Auth credentials are configurable using Mashery package key (client_id/username) and secret (client_secret/password)