Authenticate using HTTP basic authentication

Warning: For security reasons we recommend authentication using OAuth 2.0. Learn about OAuth 2.0

For HTTP basic authentication, each request must include an authentication header, with a base-64 encoded value.

Your authentication token is of the format:

siteName + '\' + username + ':' + password

Where siteName is the company name you use to log in to Eloqua, and username and password are your Eloqua username and password.

For example, for a user whose company name is COMPANYX, username is user1, and password is password123, the base string is:

COMPANYX\user1:password123

Running base-64 encoding on that string gives the token for the Authentication header: Q09NUEFOWVhcdXNlcjE6cGFzc3dvcmQxMjM=

The authentication header would then be:

Authorization: Basic Q09NUEFOWVhcdXNlcjE6cGFzc3dvcmQxMjM=