Basic Auth
When to use
Use this policy when you want the user
authentication information to be sent to backend API encoding it
Details
This policy takes in the values of user name and
password from request as part of input mappings and encodes them to base64 format. The
resulting value is returned in the output field of the policy. This value is typically
sent in Authorization HTTP header to the backend API
Configuration
The configuration fields for the policy
are:
[* Indicates a mandatory field]
Name *: Display name of the policy
Description: Description of policy
Enabled: Flag to indicate if the policy is enabled. If this
field is not checked, the policy will be ignored at runtime and any fields from its
output will contain a default initial value
Continue on Error: Flag to indicate that the flow should continue even
if this policy throws an error
username: User name
password: Password
Output fields
encodedString: base64 encoded string created from username and
password input fields
