Published at October 28th, 2025
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Last updated 7 days ago
Basic authentication
Can only be used in WS scope after 5.30.0
It is automatically enabled on WS scope and is automatically used if parts of WS requires authentication.
No longer supported to be used as authentication for admin
With this mechanism Pure can authenticate by procesing the HTTP request's BASIC authorization headers. Processing is done on any request that has a HTTP request header of Authorization with an authentication scheme of Basic and a Base64-encoded username:password token. For example, to authenticate user "Aladdin" with password "open sesame" the following header would be presented: Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
Required configuration steps
No configuration required
Optional configuration
- The Realm name can be configured. This will be presented to the user.
