API security in Postman
Postman has a lot of built-in options for dealing with API security, and in this section, I will show you how to use each of them. When I was getting started with API testing, I found that figuring out how to authorize and authenticate myself was one of the hardest parts of using an API. I hope that this section will help you figure out how to handle API security on any APIs you are testing. In the previous section, I talked about the distinction between authorization and authentication. However, as I mentioned, sometimes those two terms are conflated. Postman uses the terminology of "authorization" to combine both concepts, so as I show you how to do this, I will generally stick to using that term as an umbrella term for both authentication and authorization.In this section, you will learn how to use the various authorization options in Postman. I will go over some common ones such as bearer tokens, and also walk you through the details of how to use...