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Workspace API Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 12, 2023

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This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit APICONN-I-182 Request for encrypted basic authentication details swagger export/import from/to API manager.

Username and Password properties of Invoke policy || can we configure them in APIC and pass them as context variable to the APIC flow || API Connect V10

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We want to store/configure Username and Password needed for basicAuth to call a backend securely somewhere inside API Connect.

We will use these values dynamically using a context variable and pass them to INVOKE policy properties of an API while calling a backend.

By doing so we can avoid republish/redeployments of products when there is a change in the security credentials and can also avoid exposing backend(server) credentials in the source file(json/yaml).

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 22, 2023

    The ability to specify context variables for the username and password for backends secured with Basic Auth also greatly simplifies using environment-specific values. We use catalogs to differentiate environments, and the ability to use catalog-specific properties to specify these credentials would be helpful. Without this ability, we must generate the Authorization header in a separate Gateway script, or abandon the Invoke policy altogether and use URLOpen to access the back end. Both are significantly more complex.

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