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ktm_2000
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Nov 01, 2023

HTTP auth - Calling external API with parameters

Folks I am relatively new to F5 and am trying to do a custom auth by passing paramaters to an API and getting a response. The api is expecting me to call     url\param1\param2\param3 Upon success i...
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    Niels_van_Sluis
    Nov 02, 2023

    When using Basic authentication a status code of 200 means that all is okay and no authentication is needed or that authentication already was successful. The server should respond with a status code of 401, until the client has been successfully authenticated. The picture below shows how it should work.

     

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ktm_2000
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Nov 02, 2023

Thank you,   We had it coded to reply http 200 for both and had text to differentiate between valid or not.   I had the developer throw http 401 - unauthorized for false and redeployed.

All is working well.    Thank you for your insight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!