Start Connecting with Authorization Bearer Tokens
Last updated Mon May 23 2022
Begin your journey with authorization bearer tokens with this solution, which includes:
- Quick steps for configuring the HTTP Client connectors
- Methods for obtaining access token
- Methods for obtaining order details
Overview:
Follow security best practices by protecting APIs and other services with client credentials passed through a proven authentication model.Support your business by exemplifying security and protection of confidential and sensitive user credentials.
Authorization bearer tokens pass client credentials throughout the process to an authentication server to populate the token. The credentials are valid for a fixed interval of approximately 15 minutes. This solution performs Get/Post operations on pre-defined objects to receive secure results.
This solution is a common approach for leveraging authentication and authorization. An example use case is using these techniques to obtain orders through an API call.
The example process demonstrates the use of an authorization bearer token. In the first branch, the access token is obtained by using HTTP Client Connector. In the second branch, the authorization from the previous branch is passed by connecting to HTTP Client Connector to obtain order details. Each path connects to the Authorization REST by configuring the HTTP Client Connector.
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