Overview

The Outbound Basic Auth Policy allows 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 pre-configured 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 accounts used in this policy automatically reflect the changes made in the Basic Auth account in the global shared folder.
Deletion of the Basic Auth account will invalidate the policy and display an error. In this case, you must select another account by navigating to the Policy Setting.

Prerequisites

Pre-configured
Authentication Policy such as Anonymous Authenticator Policy

Supported Account Types

API Suite Basic Authentication Account

Policy Execution Order

The Outbound Basic Auth Policy executes before 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.

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*		Dropdown List	Select the Token location as Header/Body/Query	Header	Header
Header	Authorization Scheme*	Dropdown List	Select Bearer/Custom Authorization Scheme if you have selected the Header option from the dropdown list. For Custom Authorization Scheme spaces, include in the token key.	Bearer	Bearer
	Custom Authorization Scheme	String	Add your Custom Authorization Scheme here.		N/A
Body	Request Body Key	String	Enter JSON key with the value of the token.	N/A	N/A
Query	Query String Parameter Name	String	Name the Query String 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/BaicAuthOutboundaccount