Basic Authentication rule

Authenticates requests to Service endpoints with a user name and password. Without this rule, basic authentication isn't supported for Service requests. You can use a policy with a Basic Auth rule for authentication with the Try it out feature in APIM 3.0 Developer Portal.

Important: Snaplexes must be running on version 4.42 or later to use this rule.


Field/Field set	Description
When this rule should be applied	An expression that defines one or more conditions that must be true for the rule to execute. Default value: True Example: The expression `request.method == "GET"` causes the rule to execute only on `GET` requests.
Description	Default value: `Authenticating requests using supplied username/password`