Basic Authentication
Explore how to configure basic authentication in REST API automation using Rest Assured. Understand handling of valid and invalid credentials, encoding methods, and authorization tokens. This lesson prepares you to secure API requests and validate authentication outcomes effectively.
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What is basic authentication?
The basic authentication scheme requires the user to send the access credentials encoded in base64 or send an authorization token. REST Assured provides an easy way to configure and handle the credentials/token that the request requires.
The authentication is applicable to any HTTP Request like GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, etc.