Basic Authentication

Oracle Visual Builder Add-in for Excel supports basic authentication.

• When a catalog is configured to use Basic Access Authentication, the business user is prompted for basic credentials before the first request is sent to that catalog's endpoints.

  

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  See Authentication Options.

• The add-in sends the user credentials in the Authorization header for REST requests to the endpoint. See RFC 7617 for more information.
• When used with HTTP, basic authentication is not secure. Basic authentication should only be used with HTTPS, and preferably only in non-production environments.
• Valid credentials for a given service using Basic authentication may be different from valid credentials for Token Relay.