Thanks Jack,
I went through the links provided and while relevant for web
page/directory access I was unable to understand how this would apply to a
web service on IBMi using the IWS server.
As I have minimal knowledge in this area I may be mis understanding
implementing authority for a web service in the apache directives.
Maybe someone has a more IBMi specific reference or example.
Also while I would be thrilled to attend your session at PowerUp the
travel cost and current exchange rate from Oz to US has put this out of
my reach - Maybe you can share your presentation :-)
Thanks
Don
From: "Jack Woehr" <jack.woehr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Don Brown" <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 18/04/2024 11:49 PM
Subject: Re: Basic authentication for REST Web Service on IWS
Don --
IWS REST APIs have 2 parts ... the App Server and the HTTP Server.
basic auth is handled by the apache http server instance.
See
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/auth.html about basic auth.
There are ways to get more fancy.
The avant garde are moving to placing IBM i APIs behind an API gateway
like the open source Apache APISIX.
But that's probably for another day 🙂
I have a session Web Application Implementation Patterns for IBM i at
COMMON POWERUp in Ft. Worth.
Jack
We are now creating a REST web service that will be access remotely using
IWS and we want to add authentication.
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