Online Courses
API Authentication
Online Courses
API Authentication
  • Introduction
  • API Authentication - a (very) brief introduction
    • The variants of API Authentication
    • Basic Authentication
    • API Keys
    • TLS Authentication
    • Token Based Authentication
    • Token Based Authentication and Authorization
    • OpenID Connect vs OAuth
    • History
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • OAuth Actors
    • OAuth Actors
    • OAuth 2.0 Autors
    • Authorization vs Delegation
    • Quiz
  • OAuth 2.0 Interaction patterns
    • OAuth Code Flow
    • Client Credentials
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • Tokens
    • Tokens
    • Formats
      • Bearer
      • PoP Tokens
    • Using an Access Token
    • Using a DPoP Access Token
    • JSON Web Token
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • Scopes and Claims
    • What are scopes?
    • User Consent
    • Example
    • Claims
    • How to identity data to put in the token
    • Scopes and claim hierarcy
    • Putting it together
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • APIs and Gateways
    • Why Gateways
    • Adding OAuth
    • Remember formats?
    • All APIs should depend on JWTs
    • Introspection
    • API to API call
    • API Authorization
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • Final Assessment
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • Question 1
  • Question 2
  1. API Authentication - a (very) brief introduction

Quiz

Question 1

Authorization is the process of

Solution

Figuring out what the user is allowed to do

Question 2

Which of the following statements is incorrect about basic authentication

Solution

Basic Authentication can be used to authenticate both the user and the machine at the same time

PreviousSummaryNextOAuth Actors

Last updated 9 months ago