Re: Basic authentication to web service and Postman

OK more googling and I think this is starting to make sense.

The user name and password are converted to base64 and the used in the
authorization string in the header.

I will test and see if this works.



Don Brown




From: "Don Brown" <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "web400 (web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ftpapi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 13/07/2019 01:04 PM
Subject: [WEB400] Basic authentication to web service and Postman
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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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