That is how basic auth works. The long string is username:password base64 encoded. HTTPAPI will do that same conversion for you. Btw, if that is your real username
and password I would change it.
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On Behalf Of Don Brown
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 10:04 PM
To: web400; ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ftpapi] Basic authentication to web service and Postman
I am hoping someone can assist/advise as I am a little puzzled
We are working on a new project and using Postman to test web service calls and then this will be coded in RPG and use HTTPAPI.
In Postman we have set up the Authorization as "Basic Auth" and specified the values for User name and Password
When we "Send" the Get request it work ... Great! But then looking at the generated HTTP I am confused as it appears the basic authorization has been converted to an authorization string
Can anyone advise how this conversion is done or why I am not seeing a User name and Password details in the header ?
GET /sydney/drivers?id=16551 HTTP/1.1
Host: sydney-api.icabbi.com
Authorization: Basic ZWUyNTU1NmJkM2U5ODhiMTRjM2YyMmFmMDc3MzllODljNWJkY2YwNjo2NzExZmJlZTM5YTNjY2ZjYmI2MjljYzI0M2ZhNzQ0MzQ5MjFhNjNh
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.15.2
Accept: */*
Cache-Control: no-cache
Postman-Token: 7862a43b-82d4-408c-aee3-01ccba1daea0,5cd17cca-f6e3-4c3f-b653-ccbf6267d53d
Host: sydney-api.icabbi.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
cache-control: no-cache
Don Brown
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