@Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]> can you share current implementation
details? Is you basic authentication handler, I assume you calling token
endpoint with hard coded consumer key and password. We should be able to
support Johann's suggestion with Option 1.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 3:20 AM Harsha Kumara <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is your requirement is to provide basic authentication via clientId and
> clientSecret? For the microgateway, it will required to validate the this
> by connecting to the key manager and bring the throttling information and
> etc which will require another API. Else at micro gateway it will required
> to generate a token using clientd and secret and resume the flow.
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:28 AM Johann Nallathamby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> *[sending this mail again because previous one wasn't copied to
>> [email protected] <[email protected]>]*
>>
>> Hi Nuwan, Hi Harsha, Hi Chamod,
>>
>> An additional thought here. Most of the times customers who ask for basic
>> authentication support are the customers who need to support legacy
>> external applications I believe; not so much the internal applications.
>> Because, there can be many external parties and they cannot ask all those
>> parties to change. For example, mobile apps that take username/password to
>> be changes to OAuth2.
>>
>> In those cases it could be also useful to track all these "clients";
>> meaning applying throttling and analytics. If we go with only
>> username/password I believe we can't get that capability, because our
>> throttling and analytics is coupled to OAuth2 client_id. Hence can we
>> provide the following improvements.
>>
>> 1. For clients who are willing to change the client side slightly, we can
>> use the following format:
>> *base64((base64(client_id:username)):base64(client_secret:password))*
>> I am assuming our client_id and client_secret doesn't contain ":"
>> (colons). There can be many ways of doing this. So good if we can provide
>> an extension point to extract the client credentials.
>>
>> 2. For clients who are not willing to change the client side at all,
>> generate a blanket application from the gateway on first use of any such
>> legacy application, to capture all such clients under one internal
>> client_id, to apply analytics and throttling considering all those apps as
>> one. I suppose this will at least separate the non-trusted apps from
>> trusted apps, to minimize breaches.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Johann.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:41 PM Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>> From: Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Basic Authentication for APIM Gateway
>>> To: Nadeesha Gamage <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Harsha Kumara <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Nuwan
>>> Dias <[email protected]>, APIM Team <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Nadeesha,
>>>
>>> How will this impact statistics? Will it be possible to get usage
>>>> statistics even if they use basic authentication?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, can get the usage statistics using the username and the api.
>>>
>>>  I would also like to know when this feature would be available.
>>>
>>>
>>> Within Q2 and Q3 time frame.
>>>
>>> Thank you.Best Regards.
>>> Chamod.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 3:32 PM Nadeesha Gamage <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Chamod,
>>>> I would also like to know when this feature would be available.
>>>>
>>>> Nadeesha
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 3:30 PM Nadeesha Gamage <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Chamod,
>>>>> How will this impact statistics? Will it be possible to get usage
>>>>> statistics even if they use basic authentication?
>>>>>
>>>>> Nadeesha
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 5:18 PM Harsha Kumara <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Chamod,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can user choose to expose API either OAuth or Basic authentication
>>>>>> with this implementation?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We need to provide basic authentication agaist user store configured
>>>>>> in the key manager. Because most of the timee, gateway won't share user
>>>>>> stores. Please add the local user store authentication support as well. 
>>>>>> We
>>>>>> need to look for possible caching mechanism for this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since we do have mutual authentication as a security scheme, check
>>>>>> the best way of providing the basic authentication
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Harsha
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 4:59 PM Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Adding [email protected].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>>>>>>> From: Nuwan Dias <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 3:01 PM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: Basic Authentication for APIM Gateway
>>>>>>> To: Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> Cc: Architecture Team <[email protected]>, APIM Team <
>>>>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chamod, this email should be sent to [email protected].
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> NuwanD.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:37 PM Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have included the information in the Github issue here as well.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Requirements*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Provide authentication for APIM Gateway with basic authentication
>>>>>>>> which uses usernames and passwords.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Introduction*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Providing feature of enabling basic authentication security schema
>>>>>>>> to product APIM Gateway along with OAuth2 token-based authentication. 
>>>>>>>> The
>>>>>>>> user will be benefited with using only OAuth2 token based 
>>>>>>>> authentication
>>>>>>>> alone, using basic authentication alone and using both schemas at the 
>>>>>>>> same
>>>>>>>> time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Approach*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [image: Basic Auth - APIM-GW-2.jpg]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> curl -k -X GET "https://10.100.0.201:8243/pizzashack/1.0.0/menu";
>>>>>>>> -H "accept: application/json" -H "Authorization: Basic $(echo -n
>>>>>>>> username:password | base64)"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The API Authentication Handler will forward the request to Basic
>>>>>>>> Auth Authenticator or OAuth Authenticator based on the authorization 
>>>>>>>> header
>>>>>>>> of the request.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you. Regards.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 2:20 PM Chamod Samarajeewa <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm working on developing a new feature for APIM Gateway to
>>>>>>>>> provide Basic Authentication support. You can find the details in the
>>>>>>>>> following Github issue [1].
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I would really appreciate any feedback. Thank you.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>>> Chamod.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [1] - https://github.com/wso2/carbon-apimgt/issues/5986
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>>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
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