The API authentication process validates the identity of the client attempting to make a connection by using an authentication protocol. If there is no security with the API, users could make unlimited amounts of API calls without any kind of registration. And there wouldn’t be a way to protect against requests from malicious users that might misuse another user’s data.
AT Bureau we follow Basic Authentication Protocol, which is a method for an HTTP user agent to provide a username and password when making a request. When employing Basic Authentication, users include an encoded string in the Authorization header of each request they make.
The user’s username and password are combined with a colon.
The resulting string is base64 encoded.
Eg Basic base64 clientID:clientSecret
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