# Basic

## Basic Connection

### **Description**

The "Basic" connection type supports HTTP Basic Authentication. This method requires that a username and password are sent in the HTTP authentication header.

### **Required Information**

Once the "basic" type has been selected from the drop-down menu, the system will prompt for the following information:

* **Endpoint:** The URL of the API endpoint
* **Username**: The username for authentication.
* **Password**: The password for authentication.

### **Example Header**

An example Basic Authentication header is shown below. However the developer does not need to do anything other than create the connection and the system will handle the creation of the header automatically, including the encoding of the username:password in Base64.

```http
Authorization: Basic base64(username:password)
```

### **Usage**

This connection type is typically used when simple username and password credentials are sufficient for authentication.