Re: Web service HTTP Basic Authentication - where to start from?

Maria,

I know a product will allow you to deploy either a regular http server with user/password (fine for internal resources like front end developers to use) or an http with ssl/cert (perfect for external business partners)... additionally it comes with an api library (you can call apis, via REST method or webservice passing in a Json request... either method you choose responds with Json output)... Oh you can also call the api as a sql stored procedure. There are a few sample apis to use to test the end to end power of this framework. Lastly there is an api activity log to help keep an eye on poor performing api’s or help determine if any lag is coming from the network end or the api.

Quick and easy to download...
At very least you could learn a lot from it by installing and playing with it.

https://www.jeffersonvaughn.com/Corei-RST-REST/Webservice-Framework-Product/

Jay

On Apr 28, 2020, at 4:17 AM, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Maria,

Am 28.04.2020 um 07:58 schrieb Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>:

I know very little about basic authentication: I know REST API must be
called with login information set in the headers, but I can't figure out
how to configure the web service HTTP instance to accept it and, most of
all, how these information will be checked against user profile security on
IBM i.

Basic-Auth is done by the Web Server Process(es) itself, while some AUTH in some API is handled by the API. Which of these two do you want to have?

I would like to know a bit more on the subject before paying for a course.

Regarding REST and http, there's plenty of information out there in the network. I'd start with Wikipedia (preferred: English, the computing-centric articles are often of vrey good quality) and follow Links in there to learn more.

:wq! PoC

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