Overview

The Outbound Basic Auth Policy enables you to set up a Basic Authentication account for verification at a proxy endpoint level when you establish a connection with a service or a system. It provides flexibility to add login credentials to the header, body, or query string parameter. A preconfigured Basic Auth account is needed to connect with the backend service so you can access third-party URLs through the Proxy.

The Basic Auth Outbound Policy is not available for APIs and API versions.
The preconfigured accounts used in this policy automatically reflect the changes made to the name of Basic Auth account in the global shared folder.
Deletion of the Basic Auth account invalidates the policy and display an error. In this case, you must select another account by navigating to the Policy Setting.

Prerequisites

Preconfigured Basic Authentication Account.

Supported Account Types

API Suite Basic Authentication Account.

Policy Execution Order

The Outbound Basic Auth Policy executes after all policies, when the proxy calls the downstream API.

All expression-enabled fields take expressions from the SnapLogic® Expression Language and the API Policy Manager functions.

Known Issue

When you use the HTTP Retry Policy with the Basic Auth policy, the request fails with an error message. This issue only applies to Proxies created after the February 2024 release. Existing Proxies are unaffected.
Workaround: Delete the HTTP Retry Policy.

Settings and Account Tab

Field names with an '*' (Asterisk symbol) suffix are mandatory fields.

Parameter Name		Field Type	Description	Default Value	Example

Parameter Name		Field Type	Description	Default Value	Example
Setting Tab
Label*		String	Required. The name for the API policy.	Outbound Basic Auth	Outbound Basic Auth Policy
When this policy should be applied		String/Expression	An expression-enabled field that determines the condition to be fulfilled for the API policy to execute. For example, if the value in this field is request.method == "POST", the API policy is executed only if the request method is a POST.	N/A	request.method == “POST”
Token Location*			Select the Token location as Header/Body/Query.
Header		Dropdown List	Token provided in header	Header	Header
	Authorization Scheme*	Dropdown List	Select Bearer/Custom Authorization Scheme if you selected the Header option from the dropdown list.	Basic	Basic
	Custom Authorization Scheme	String	Add your Custom Scheme token.	N/A	N/A
Body		Dropdown List	Token provided in header	Body
	Request Body Key	String	Enter the JSON key with the value of the token.	N/A	N/A
Query		Dropdown List	Token provided in header	Query
	Query String Parameter Name	String	Name the Query Parameter.	N/A	N/A
Status		Dropdown List	Specifies whether the API policy is enabled or disabled.	Enabled	Enabled
Account Tab
Account Reference*		Dropdown List	Select a preconfigured Basic Auth account from the dropdown list that is configured in the Global Org >Shared Folder.	N/A	../../shared/BasicAuthOutboundaccount