API-Key Based Authentication: Quickly and Easily by Anuj Kaushal
May 30, 2019 Leave a comment
API-Key based authentication is a simple way for providing secure access to APIs. This involves the following steps:
- Pre-requisite: User logs in to the service portal and finds or generates an API-Key.
- The API-Key is shared with the client application.
- The client application makes a request for a resource using the API key.
Steps required in API Key based authentication.
* An API-key is simply a token that a client provides when making API calls.
How to invoke a REST API protected with an API-Key using Oracle Integration Cloud?
Oracle REST Adapter provides a comprehensive way for consuming external RESTful APIs. It provides a re-usable connection that can be used to specify the security policy for accessing protected APIs. For consuming APIs protected using an API-Key, integration developers should proceed by selecting API Key Based Authentication security policy. Read the complete article here.
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