Basic Auth
Authenticates requests using HTTP Basic authentication — a username and password encoded in the Authorization header.
Fields
| Field | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Username | — | The username |
| Password | — | The password |
| Header Name | Authorization | The request header to set |
| Header Prefix | Basic | The prefix before the encoded credentials |
| Character Set | UTF-8 | Encoding used when building the header value. UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 |
How it works
Blokkio concatenates username:password, base64-encodes the result, and sets the header:
Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
When to use it
Use Basic Auth when an API requires HTTP Basic authentication. Many legacy APIs and internal services use this scheme. For modern APIs, prefer Bearer Token or OAuth 2.0.