Implementing Basic and Digest authentication
The Basic and Digest authentication schemes are the easiest authentication solutions that we can use to secure API endpoints. Both schemes are alternative authentication mechanisms that can be applied to small and low-risk applications without requiring complex configuration and coding. Let us now use these schemes to secure our prototype.
Using Basic authentication
The most straightforward way to secure the API endpoint is the Basic authentication approach. However, this authentication mechanism must not be applied to high-risk applications because the credentials, commonly a username and password, sent from the client to the security scheme provider are in the Base64-encoded format, which is vulnerable to many attacks such as brute force, timing attacks, and sniffing. Base64 is not an encryption algorithm but simply a way of representing the credentials in ciphertext format.
Applying HttpBasic and HttpBasicCredentials
The prototype...
