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When exercising an APIcall from your application's code, you must create the Authorization

header. Supply the Base64 encoded value of the <username>:<password> string for the user you

will use for authentication.

The following example shows how to compute the Authorization header for the Consumption API

identity service default credentials.

1. The username:password string for a default identity service integration account is

idmTransportUser:idmTransportUser.

2. The Base64 encoded value of this username:password string is:

aWRtVHJhbnNwb3J0VXNlcjppZG1UcmFuc3BvcnRVc2Vy.

3. The Authorization header value specifies the keyword Basic to distinguish from other forms

of authentication. Set the Authorization header to: Basic

aWRtVHJhbnNwb3J0VXNlcjppZG1UcmFuc3BvcnRVc2Vy.

Authorization

Legacy CSA3.x API

With the exception of login and orgInformation, CSA Legacy API calls require a UserIdentifier

parameter. Use the login API call to obtain a user's CSA ID. The user must have the necessary

permissions to access the data requested by the API calls you will be making

For example, to get the user ID for user consumer in organization CSA_CONSUMER, submit the

following URL (via an HTTP client or application code as will be described shortly):

https://<host>:<port>/csa/rest/login/CSA_CONSUMER/consumer

The <person><id> value in the following return body is theUserIdentifier value you would use in

further Legacy API calls:

<isCriticalSystemObject>false</isCriticalSystemObject>

<description>service consumer user</description>

<detailedDescription>service consumer user</detailedDescription>

<iconUrl>http://localhost/csaconsumer/consumer</iconUrl>

<name>consumer</name>

<displayName>consumer</displayName>

<state>

...

</state>

...

</person>

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