Security, Authentication and Authorization

When you make HTTPS requests to Lifecycle Management REST endpoints for API Platform Cloud Service, you ensure secure, authenticated and authorized access by providing the following information:

• An SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate file or bundle to authenticate against the Verisign certificate authority (CA) certificate. (Oracle Cloud uses a CA certificate issued by Verisign to enable clients to connect securely to the server.)

• The Authorization standard header to specify the user name and password of an Oracle Cloud user with authorization to perform the operation.

The Authorization Header

When making a request to Lifecycle Management REST endpoints for API Platform Cloud Service, you must specify an Authorization header whose value contains the user name and password of an Oracle Cloud user with authorization to perform the requested operation. The value has the form:

Basic base64-encrypted-username-colon-password

where base64-encrypted-username-colon-password is the user name and password, separated by a colon and encoded using Base64 encoding. For example, given the user name apicsadmin and the password password, the string to encode would be apicsadmin:welcome1 and the resulting header would be:

Authorization: Basic YXBpY3NhZG1pbjpwYXNzd29yZAo=

Note:

Many client applications provide a method that creates this header for you. In cURL, for example, the -u (--user) option adds the Authorization header to a request:

--user apicsadmin:password

generates the same Authorization header shown in the previous example.

You can use the base64 command on Unix operating systems to encode a username and password using Base 64:

$echo apicsadmin:password | base64