The BloxOne platform supports basic HTTP authentication for REST API. Basic authentication provides the ability to use APIs, which allows using authentication credentials in the form of a Cloud Services Portal API key in the authorization header of the an HTTP API. The API key replaces Replacing the username and password for a with the API key makes basic authentication more secure means of basic authentication.

Basic authentication requires a username and a password for authentication. Infoblox simplifies the process by using a standardized username (apikey, so you only ) Therefore, to use basic authentication, all you need to obtain is a valid secure API key to use basic authentication.

Username: apikey

Password: <secure API key>

You can obtain For instructions on obtaining a secure service API key or a user API key via the Cloud Services Portal, as described in see Creating Service API Keys or and Creating User API Keys.

Restrictions for Basic Authentication

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Basic Authentication Example

You can To use basic authentication by passing , pass the username and password in the URL of your API request. The following is an example:

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