I have an application that uses Basic Authentication to authenticate and authorize service calls. I am setting up our WSO2 API Manager on a separate server but are unsure how to pass the base64 encryption from the API Manager through to my application to authorize certain service calls.
This information is not readily available in the documentation so I am not sure it is even supported.
Has anyone used this or knows how to achieve this?
If you want to provide your own authentication mechanism you can do this very easily by implementing the org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.security.Authenticator and set it in authentication handlers chain.
You can refer the org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.gateway.handlers.security.oauth.OAuthAuthenticator for reference.
You can provide the credentials when you create an API at publisher. You can check the WSO2 documentation about adding an API. At publisher for "Endpoint Type" you have to select Secured and then need to provide username/password.
Authentication occurs in API Manager via the APIAuthenticationHandler, which is among the handlers defined in your API sequence definition (/repository/deployment/server/synapse-configs/default/api). To disable authentication for that particular API (since API Manager handles basic authentication itself), just remove or comment out the handler. Users should then provide the basic authentication required by the back-end service rather than the API Manager token, since they will no longer need it.
