Introduction to REST Security

Published REST Web Services have Security to protect them from unauthorised use. The most common way of passing through authorisation information is by passing in an Authorization header.

You can configure the Authorization header when consuming a REST Web Service by selecting an endpoint, then clicking the icon.

The following authentication types can be configured:

• Basic Authentication (base64 encoded credentials)
• Digest Authentication
• NTLM Authentication
• OAuth (configured on Server)

When publishing a REST Web Service Resource you can program authorisation protocols into your endpoint event script.