How to test Basic Authentication in BW 6.3 for Rest services.

How to test Basic Authentication in BW 6.3 for Rest services.

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Article ID: KB0092858

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Description

Description:

BW 6.3 does not provide input fields in the Swagger UI to fill usernames and passwords when basic authentication is enabled. This issue is caused be a defect in the Swagger UI . Invoking the rest service will result in the following response message.


{

"error": "no response from server"

}

Resolution

BW rest services can also be tested by using the Chrome plugin Postman. It supports basic authentication. See the attached document (Filename: BW63_basic_auth_testing.zip) which has step by step configuration procedures.

Issue/Introduction

How to test Basic Authentication in BW 6.3 for Rest services.

Additional Information

AMBW-21338

Attachments

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