Authentication

The Connect API allows REST clients to authenticate themselves with a user name and password using Basic Authentication.

Most client software provides a simple mechanism for supplying a username and password which will build the required authentication headers automatically.

If needed, you may construct and send basic auth headers yourself. To do this you need to perform the following steps:

• Build a string of the form username:password
  Base64 encode the string
• Supply an Authorization header with content Basic followed by the encoded string. For example, the string Aladdin:OpenSesame encodes to QWxhZGRpbjpPcGVuU2VzYW1l in base64.